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Arcade Collecting => Pinball => Topic started by: RayB on September 09, 2011, 01:14:46 pm

Title: John Popadiuk on Ben Heck Show
Post by: RayB on September 09, 2011, 01:14:46 pm

Short interview at 11:30 with pinball designer turned cat-lady, John Popadiuk:

XBOX 360 Controllers You Can Split! - The Ben Heck Show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8G3UTtGKvA#ws)

Interesting tidbit he shares about designing in the real world (as opposed to with CAD software) and offsetting the slingshots.

Title: Re: John Popadiuk on Ben Heck Show
Post by: Vigo on September 09, 2011, 01:22:05 pm

Hey, the cat lady look is coming into style, soon it will be the big hipster trend.  :lol

Title: Re: John Popadiuk on Ben Heck Show
Post by: Donkbaca on September 09, 2011, 01:55:41 pm

Haha, hipsters:

my buddy:  "Hey am I a hipster?  I wear trucker hats and drink Pabst Blue Ribbon.  I always thought that made me white trash."
Me: " Well, can you kick anybody's ass?"
MB: "yeah"
Me " Then you aren't a hipster..."

Title: Re: John Popadiuk on Ben Heck Show
Post by: Xiaou2 on September 11, 2011, 01:34:17 pm

I always thought that there was no real way to design a pinball on CAD. 

 To know where the ball will go most often, and how things will flow, seems to require a live test in a real partially built machine.

 I thought that they only used CAD  'After'  they had made a whitewood, to get specific measurements for duplication.

Title: Re: John Popadiuk on Ben Heck Show
Post by: RayB on September 11, 2011, 11:44:32 pm

Quote from: Xiaou2 on September 11, 2011, 01:34:17 pm

I thought that they only used CAD  'After'  they had made a whitewood, to get specific measurements for duplication.

That would make sense.