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Build Your Own Pinball Possibilities...?
yugffuts:
I think ideally you would be using the real pinball parts. The trick here is either
A) Interfacing a solenoid board with a PC or
B) Fabricating a solenoid board specifically to interface with a PC
such that the average person could gather up the parts, and put together their own homebrew game.
Someone with experience creating/modifying boards want to chime in?
TheCaptain:
I made a little carwash with mine, it was awesome.
D_Zoot:
It's been done with a Linux box and homemade I/O boards and custom coding.
Read here:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/8476
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ChadTower:
That's the headless pin project I was talking about in the last thread when he got snippy that I was pushing his idea in the right direction rather than spoon feeding it to him.
yugffuts:
At no point did I get pissy. If that's what you want to think, that's fine.
That project is very impressive. And it proves that it can be done; The linux PC in question acts as the MPU, however it interfaces with the original solenoid driver and lamp driver board.
For a home made pin to be accessible to most, those boards would also need to be made to interface with a PC. Then the person could create his own game, and wire it accordingly, without needing to fabricate his own hardware.
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