DIY Skeeball

[lamboman]

Very impressive.

Does anyone have the measurements for this cabinet / runway / ramp?...Check out my thread in Arcade misc. I am going to attempt this and hopefully document it on the site. Thanks,

[Ixliam]

Sorry its been so long since I've done any update on this. Shortly after I finished it, I ended up moving to Chicago right as winter hit. After living there for about 1.5 years, I returned home to Georgia. We were in a small home with no room for the cabinet, so the ramp part was placed in our home standing up, and the scoreboard part was put outside in a shed. Unfortunatley the shed was not 100% waterproof and it took significant water damage, so when we returned home I did not have room to pack it all into a POD unit, so the ramp (the hard part) was taken and the cabinet was taken away by the sanitation dept. Needless to say I haven't done too much with it since then.

Now that I have a new home I do plan on setting up a game room downstairs with an updated skeeball machine and the mame cabinet, but just haven't had time. I do have the DWG files on this burned onto DVD, so its just a matter of tracking it down and then putting it on somewhere like fileshare for everyone to pull from if they want to.

I never got the switches working correctly, and due to the move I did not get into trying to convert the switches to an optical style rather than the spring switches. It wasn't a problem with the code but rather of the spring switches bouncing and causing it to count as multiple hits. I'm not sure how the actual machine did it, but its probably why the newer machines have gone to optical switches instead.

Brad

[bfauska]

Welcome back, I recently read this entire thread only to be bummed out that you disappeared before finishing. It'll be great to see the project finally on it's feet again when you get back around to it.

 

[VXAgent]

I started one of these.  Due to the lack of plans that I could find I did my own with google sketch up

Hope this helps someone.