Pretty !@#!~@ cool! I want one!

[Lilwolf]

http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=151375

Now imagine this hooked up to pinmame!

[Harry Potter]

Time to dig out the old lego stash

[MameJunkie]

Is this a actual kit or did the guy have too much time on his hands?

[coasternuts]

Sweet!  Someone should now make a VPinball or Future Pinball table out of it.

[Wetworks]

Amazing!!
Has anyone made a mame cab out of lego?

[Q*Bert_OP]

Friggin' sweet!!!

[ARCADE5280]

Interesting!...a quick seach on google yeilds that this is not the only lego pin...

http://www.norgesgade14.dk/legoSider/mindstorm_en.html

...how do these people have so much free time!?

[RayB]

Is this a actual kit or did the guy have too much time on his hands?

He used the "RCX" controller from the Lego Mindstorms Robotics kit. He used 13 of em. Think about this. Each MS kit is about $200 each and comes with only 1 RCX.... hmm... Not only does he have time, but he has money.

[Xiaou2]

 Actually, I find these severely dissapointing.

 Making a machine out of wood and a printed artwork would not be all
that difficult, and the design could be much better and much more complex.
 
 The other sad part is that for all the controllers, time, and money spent on these...
there is no 'kicker'  coils.   Pinball  without coils = not a pinball IMOP.  Might as
well buy one of those cheesy   50$  kids 'pinball' (ugg)   games.

 Someday..  I will make a pinball machine.   Gota finish restoring the real ones first though... so it could be a while.

  The electronics are the hardest part.  If someone makes a controller for them..
Id be in heaven.  I think many others would be too.




 

[Lilwolf]

come on now... its cool and you know it.

sure it will play like crap.  But it still cool.  Especially if you could move it around.  Think about hooking it up to vpinmame with lego tops... where you could move all the bumpers around to fit a specific game.

But its not a real pinball machine.  And sure making one with wood might not seem that hard, but getting it perfect probably is a real pain in the butt... not to mention finishing it and saying, this kinda sucks gameplay wise... or its too easy...or the balls always sink... or ... with legos, you can just fix that

[Xiaou2]

 Sorry, I just cant agree       They are both ugly as hell, look and play worse than the cheapie store bought ones.

 As for moving the legos arround.. it seems at least one of them has a smooth playfeild.  If that is so, then they must have had to use non legos  for that?  And glued legos to it.

 But even if not.. who cares if its hooked to vpinball... if it stinks, it will still stink with vpinball connection.  No coils, no amazing lightshow, only a few rollover switches, no flahsers, no electronic flippers? (leads to momentum cheating),
no illuminated inserts..  and no real theme or artwork.  And nothing you build with it will ever resemble any real machine in vpinball... not even close.

 Making a real good pinball machine is an artform for sure.  It will take many fixes and tweaks.. but hell, thats the fun challenge : )

 When you do make a tester board, you could in fact make a setup with one of those holed boards used for hanging tools.   Place parts on it,  then make a smooth thin overlay to cover the holes so the ball moves without problem.

 Or, just use a piece of wood, screw the parts in from the bottom.   If they need to move, unscrew them, move, and redrill and screw in a new place.  You could fill in the dril hole if needed... but I think that youd want to redrill the entire feild once you know the perfect locations on a fresh board.

 Heck, I think someone could make a better cardboard pin than these projects posted    heh

 I once made a near lifesize skeeball machine out of cardboard when i was a kid.  Used tennis balls, and even had a ball return : )   No score board of course  : )  heh   Played awesome actually.

[SirPoonga]

Making a machine out of wood and a printed artwork would not be all
that difficult, and the design could be much better and much more complex.

I think you are missing the point on why this is cool.  What has been doneso far on the lego pinball is very complex.  Have you ever played with legos?

Everything you said could be done with legos, just take an awful amount of time.  That's what makes this cool, it shows what is possible with legos.

Of coarse the isn't the "real thing", but oyu have to be impressed with it.

It's like saying the mastermind project (go up a level on the site) sucks because it isn't the real board game.  Well, that's not the point, it's meant to show what legos can do.  That's cool.

On the subject of mindstorms, I think a battlebots with mindstorms would be pretty interesting...

[Ed_McCarron]

"I think a battlebots with mindstorms would be pretty interesting..."

I've got one person wanting to compete with a 30 lb, autonomous 'bot with a 8 lb spinning blade driven by a 1.5 HP electric motor.  He is looking to use a laptop with custom software, image recognition software, a wifi link to the bot, and arena mounted cameras.

I predict lots of bots painted to look like the arena floor.

We're still working out the safety rules.  I ain't going in there to stop it when it goes wacko.

[SirPoonga]

I've got one person wanting to compete with a 30 lb, autonomous 'bot with a 8 lb spinning blade driven by a 1.5 HP electric motor.  He is looking to use a laptop with custom software, image recognition software, a wifi link to the bot, and arena mounted cameras.

Back during hte battlebot craze a friend and I thought of this.  We'd securely put a junk pda in hte bot that had sometype of wifi.  There would be sensors and stuff on the bot that determine when to use a weapon (with manual override, or total shutdown if wireless link is lost).  That way the controller would jus thave to maneuver the bot, it attacks on it's own.

[Ed_McCarron]

"Back during hte battlebot craze"

You'd be surprised.  The 'fad' is still going pretty strong.  Theres gotta be over 1k competitors in this country alone.  The competition I run in Harrisburg has over 100 robots enter each year, including ones from canada and further.  That translates into (2) 10 hour days of fights.

TV found better things to put on, like rock-paper-scissor tournaments, and jumprope competitions.  If you think I'm joking, check out ESPN-2 some day.

"maneuver the bot, it attacks on it's own."

This one has been done pretty well.  Proximity sensors on the front recognize when theres a 'victim' in attack range.  Works good as long as you can keep the bot pointed away from the wall. 

[mahuti]

My next door neighbor used to build robots for "Robot Wars." Now he just builds them for local competitions. The first time I went over to his house for a party Orbitron came out and attacked me... luckily he'd removed the kill saws from it.

Anyway, speaking of legos, my friends brother built a working harpsicord out of legos. Even the tuning of the strings was done with legos. 

[SirPoonga]

You'd be surprised. 

No, I'm not.  I know they are still going.  But they aren't the pop culture fad any more.
That's like saying the mullet was a fad yet I still see people with mullets.

This one has been done pretty well.  Proximity sensors on the front recognize when theres a 'victim' in attack range.  Works good as long as you can keep the bot pointed away from the wall. 

Hence why i said manual override.  Would nee a way to override form the remote control to disable individual weapons/sensors.   The bot I was planning was going to get it's weapon power form air bottles, don't want to waste the air....

[SirPoonga]

Anyway, speaking of legos, my friends brother built a working harpsicord out of legos. Even the tuning of the strings was done with legos. 

If you are ever on chat at the same time SG is on chat, she made a lego spinner a couple years ago

[Ed_McCarron]

That's like saying the mullet was a fad yet I still see people with mullets.

Valid point.  Personally, i consider the mullet scarier, tho.

Amazing how threads wander.  Like a psychotic free-associating.

[mahuti]

SG? Whoozat?

[SirPoonga]

If you are in chat when she's there you'd know