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Giving some advice, and looking for some help.
DeathMonk:
I like that idea... but what if it's tilted the opposite way of where it would hit the sensor? How about you have metal contacts surronding (all sides..possibly a circle) the ball/weight as the + of the circuit and have the metal ball the - of the circuit, then no matter what way you tilt, it will still go off.
shmokes:
hmm...it seems kind of illogical to avoid readily available information on anything that you want to build from scratch. Why waste time and money learning from only your own mistakes when others have already paid the price? Besides that you surely can't trust yourself to come up with ALL the brilliant ideas that come from a collaborative forum such as this all by yourself. Einstein built on the currently existing foundations of science. That doesn't mean he wasn't brilliant. Can you imagine how little he would have accomplished if he had to start from scratch -- not knowing that the earth was round or orbiting the sun or what the sun was or why it rains or what an atom was?
Your cabinet, though. I suppose if that's what makes you happy there's really no usefull criticism I could mount against it. I hope it turned out spectacular regardless (and if you had any brilliant ideas yourself I hope you share them with the rest of us here who want to make the best possible arcade experience regardless of who the original innovator was :) )
mcleanjoel:
--- Quote from: DeathMonk on March 19, 2003, 10:11:04 am ---I like that idea... but what if it's tilted the opposite way of where it would hit the sensor? How about you have metal contacts surronding (all sides..possibly a circle) the ball/weight as the + of the circuit and have the metal ball the - of the circuit, then no matter what way you tilt, it will still go off.
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Visual Pinball allows 3 bumps - forward, left, & right so you might try something that way with 3 leaf switches. Not sure how well side to side would work though.
Just forward would work as the front of the CP would "bump" the weight forward if it normally rests against it. -
3 weights & switches - 1 touching the front and 1 touching each of the left & right sides would work.
I was thinking you would need to be able to modify the time in contact with the switch, however, I played Visual Pinball and saw that a Tilt is registered by hitting it over and over - not by holding the button so that makes it simpler. I would not use anything flexible - just make it trigger the switch and return easily and quickly.
When I play I only use the forward bump anyway - buit I'm sure most of the pinball "pros" probably do bump left and right.
Hoe:
My view of it; If I was just going to follow step by step instructions, why not just buy some X-Arcades? It's just some thing I wanted to do by my self.
For the dump sensor, I orignaly planned on using a sort of a bell like system. But I suppose if I want to get it going in all 3 directions, then I should probly do some thing that is more in-tune with your idea.
"are you talking about female quick disconnects which a lot of us use"
I believe so. I was unaware that a lot of you guys used them, I didn't see any thing on the page about them. There is a lot of differnt ones which are collectively called "crimp terminals."
Xphile:
--- Quote from: Hoe on March 19, 2003, 10:19:34 pm ---I believe so. I was unaware that a lot of you guys used them, I didn't see any thing on the page about them. There is a lot of differnt ones which are collectively called "crimp terminals."
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like this?
from here:
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