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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




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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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