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That's How I Roll! (Skeeball build)

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thatpurplestuff:
Very tiny update... I haven't OFFICIALLY hooked the ramp lighting up yet, but I was dying to see what they look like together.  I attached some dupont connectors to the strips so I could test it out with the prefab LED controller before I create the custom controls.  Love what I'm seeing so far!

Red/red


White/red


Blue/red


Red/blue


Light blue/light blue


Purple/green (pics not doing it justice, the purple is purple and the LEDs are very green but appear teal-ish in the pics)




When both colors are the same it creates a cool bleed over effect into the ball return.  When they are different, they really pop and look awesome with certain color combos.  More updates later!

Entropy42:
The ball return lighting looks great with those black balls.  I think your net looks good, better than a fake plexiglass netting.  I made mine out of EMT conduit, bent to follow the wood frame, and I'm really happy with the way it looks (http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php/topic,116309.msg1325158.html#msg1325158), but that's also pretty much how yours looks now and you said you don't like it, so I guess to each his own.  I just need a better string for holding the net on.  The yarn I'm using is garbage and is fraying badly but I haven't bothered to redo it.  My net is really tight and the balls come off of it pretty well.

javeryh:
The lighting looks great.  This whole project is really neat.

DaOld Man:
Looking real good. I agree with everyone else about the LED's. Great ideas going on there. :applaud: :applaud: :applaud:

netlohcs:
Hello thatpurplestuff!

I'm a long time lurker of this thread. Can you believe you started it over 10 years ago?

My wife and I have our own personal game room, and about 5 years ago I decided to build myself some skeeball tables. I have been on a journey very similar to what you have been doing. In fact your post was one of my inspirations to believe that I COULD write my own code for my skeeball tables. I'm now 14,000 lines of code deep, and have software that (in my opinion) runs quite well. 

I'm not going to hijack your thread with pictures of my own machines, for now I just wanted to introduce myself and encourage you to keep going! I would like to talk with you more soon, and would like to be a resource for you if I am able to be.  I'm seriously super pumped that you started posting in this thread again.

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