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| yugffuts:
I think ideally you would be using the real pinball parts. The trick here is either A) Interfacing a solenoid board with a PC or B) Fabricating a solenoid board specifically to interface with a PC such that the average person could gather up the parts, and put together their own homebrew game. Someone with experience creating/modifying boards want to chime in? |
| TheCaptain:
I made a little carwash with mine, it was awesome. |
| D_Zoot:
It's been done with a Linux box and homemade I/O boards and custom coding. Read here: http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8476 D |
| ChadTower:
That's the headless pin project I was talking about in the last thread when he got snippy that I was pushing his idea in the right direction rather than spoon feeding it to him. |
| yugffuts:
At no point did I get pissy. If that's what you want to think, that's fine. That project is very impressive. And it proves that it can be done; The linux PC in question acts as the MPU, however it interfaces with the original solenoid driver and lamp driver board. For a home made pin to be accessible to most, those boards would also need to be made to interface with a PC. Then the person could create his own game, and wire it accordingly, without needing to fabricate his own hardware. |
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