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Dazz:

I'm tellin' ya... This is the way to go if you want to use a real plunger.  http://www.johnsretroarcade.com/hardware_pinball.asp

drventure:

That's pretty slick. But at the end of the day, it's just an on off switch too.

Here's what mine looks like.



easy, cheap, no soldering, works the same in effect.

I wish there was an easy way to hook a real plunger up to a joystick or pot somehow to get a true "pull back distance" reading, as if you were moving a joystick up and down. Not sure how you might do that though without a completely custom plunger.

DashRendar:

Drventure, is that a leaf switch I see behind your plunger?

Dazz, I've looked over that.  I guess I was looking for a pre-built solution.  While I have a lot of technical saavy, I haven't played with circuit boards and that type of electronics for a LONG time.  But it looks like most of that stuff can be bought at Radio Shack, so maybe it wouldn't be as hard to go that route.

I would ideally like a plunger control that senses the pull to determine the force of the ball launch.  Dazz's solution seems to emulate that to a degree.

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