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TheCaptain:

--- Quote from: jcroach on March 06, 2006, 08:17:56 am ---Wow.  How does he keep the balls from smashing that LCD screen?

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Probably some sort of thick plexiglass screen.

Edit: Well, I don't really see one, so I'm figuring that it's screen is probably tough enough to take any punishment a stray ball might be able to inflict. It looks like it's pretty hard to get up there.
yugffuts:
I was thinking about this the other day.  Isn't the tech more or less there to be able to build your own pin interfacing with a computer? (I'd prefer a computer, because you're not limited by the game you are using as your base, and because it's probably easier for most to write a script than reburn custom roms).

For example, you could build yourself a table, and wire all the switches to an IPAC 56 input.  Run a script on a PC in the cabinet the same as VPinmame does.  The only thing I can't figure out is driving the solenoids.

If you get it set up with some kind of a common molex connector, you should be able to swap out PF's and load a different script very quickly/easily, too.

I'm sure someone knows 10x as I do about pins (at least)...what is keeping us all from building our own?  And yes, I realize that 56 inputs is probably not enough for a new style pin, but it would be a start. 
ChadTower:

There is supposedly already linux based software that can completely drive a headless pin.
mahuti:
I'll admit that the guy has skill. I have an EM pin, and it's not an easy job to work on it. Plus, the art and details look fantastic. That being said, though, it looks kind of boring... no knock down targets, only 1 pop bumper.... there's not even any slingshots on the rubber channels down at the bottom near the flippers.

The game LCD controls being pin driven, that's cool, and so are the ramps, but the bread and butter of a pin isn't there. Great craftsmanship and ingenuity, but there are definitely some crucial elements missing.
yugffuts:

--- Quote ---There is supposedly already linux based software that can completely drive a headless pin.
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Supposedly?  Is this in development, , or is it out there somewhere, and you just don't know the name?  Why headless?  Do you mean no DMD?  Seems like that would be easy to do with an LCD monitor.  That enough questions for you?  :)

If this already exists, I can't believe there isn't already a BYOPM forum set up.  I can't be the only one intersted in a project like this.

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