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| Krahsloop:
--- Quote from: Ixliam on January 28, 2008, 10:26:59 am ---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 --- End quote --- Hey Brad, are you still making stuff here in Georgia? |
| Joeadamsactor:
Hey guys! New to the forum. I'm looking for a template for the curve. I know this has been out there for years, just hoping someone has this. |
| PL1:
--- Quote from: Joeadamsactor on June 22, 2017, 11:38:17 am ---Hey guys! New to the forum. I'm looking for a template for the curve. I know this has been out there for years, just hoping someone has this. --- End quote --- Welcome aboard, Joeadamsactor. ;D Unclet posted some excellent ramp template pictures with an L-square for scale reference. Here's a fairly comprehensive list of BYOAC skeeball build threads -- the template pictures are in at least one of them. :cheers: Nickels - Skee Ball V2.0 http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,130545.0.html Entropy42 - Skee Ball Restoration and Improvement http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,116309.msg1232320.html#msg1232320 Thatpurplestuff - That's how I roll! http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,91011.0.html Jayhawk - Skee-ball Repro http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,55648.msg545673.html#msg545673 Ixliam - Skee-ball http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,29455.0/all.html Ixliam - DIY Skeeball http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,29727.0.html Scott |
| Ixliam:
Just thought I would post an update that while I no longer have the skee ball machine (it was damaged/destroyed by weather/hurricane/water damage), the files for Autocad are around on backup here somewhere. Once I locate them I'll see about getting them to someone here so they can go up for anyone to use. Glad to see a few others have built their own over the years. I never could quite get my counting mechanism to quite work well, as I would occasionally get a double count from the counter. Using an optical sensor probably would solve this issue is my guess, but that would require a bit of rework of my circuit. With things out now like Raspberry Pi, there's so much more you can do than there was 11 years ago when I built this thing. Picture archive on imgr: https://imgur.com/a/AKeAmrb and attached below. |
| rustymoose:
Does anyone have UncleT's ramp template? I've been sifting through the great builds out there and haven't been able to find working link yet. My son and I are planning out the build right now. Appreciate it! |
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