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| lamboman:
Very impressive. Does anyone have the measurements for this cabinet / runway / ramp?...Check out my thread in Arcade misc. I am going to attempt this and hopefully document it on the site. Thanks, |
| Ixliam:
Sorry its been so long since I've done any update on this. Shortly after I finished it, I ended up moving to Chicago right as winter hit. After living there for about 1.5 years, I returned home to Georgia. We were in a small home with no room for the cabinet, so the ramp part was placed in our home standing up, and the scoreboard part was put outside in a shed. Unfortunatley the shed was not 100% waterproof and it took significant water damage, so when we returned home I did not have room to pack it all into a POD unit, so the ramp (the hard part) was taken and the cabinet was taken away by the sanitation dept. Needless to say I haven't done too much with it since then. Now that I have a new home I do plan on setting up a game room downstairs with an updated skeeball machine and the mame cabinet, but just haven't had time. I do have the DWG files on this burned onto DVD, so its just a matter of tracking it down and then putting it on somewhere like fileshare for everyone to pull from if they want to. I never got the switches working correctly, and due to the move I did not get into trying to convert the switches to an optical style rather than the spring switches. It wasn't a problem with the code but rather of the spring switches bouncing and causing it to count as multiple hits. I'm not sure how the actual machine did it, but its probably why the newer machines have gone to optical switches instead. Brad |
| bfauska:
Welcome back, I recently read this entire thread only to be bummed out that you disappeared before finishing. It'll be great to see the project finally on it's feet again when you get back around to it. :cheers: |
| VXAgent:
I started one of these. Due to the lack of plans that I could find I did my own with google sketch up Hope this helps someone. |
| ShimmyAndGershon:
My 15 year old son Shimmy has gotten pretty far in building a Skeeball machine based on the pictures Ixliam and unclet posted, as well as the 3-D Google Sketch Up plans by VXAgent. He has built the marquee and target area (although he has not yet made the holes for the balls to fall through), and has built the ball return area. Half of the width of the S-curved bump is also finished, but no ramp yet. This past week he put in a pull string to release the 9 balls down the ball return. It uses bungee cord like Ixliam's to raise the gate again after you finish releasing the balls. Attached are pictures. I promised to help him with the electronics. We bought a bunch of 4-inch high 7-segment LEDs that require 11 volts and 5-10mA to turn on. We are planning on using the sensors and microcontroller from the Vex Robotics starter robot kit. I am still wondering how to breadboard output lines coming from the Vex microcontroller to drive the four LED displays for the score and balls-used. I can write the program for the microcontroller to output 0 or 5 volts on 7 lines for each of the 7 segments of an LED, and have 4 additional lines to enable the seven lines for each of the LEDs. Alternatively, and preferably, I could output 4 lines for the digit in binary, and 4 lines for each LED. This would give me more input lines on the microcontroller for sensing balls going through a target hole. Anybody know of standard IC chips that can help with this job? I am trying to minimize components and wiring. I was hoping to get my son interested in electronics and programming, but he is happy to do the mechanical/construction side, and leave electronics/programming to me. We are also still unsure on what to use for the white circles around the target holes. skeeball.com wanted too much money for their rubber. We have already spent enough money on the balls from them, LEDs, and wood. My son is thinking of cutting open plastic pipe. |
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