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A DIY Pinball Machine
ChadTower:
Your hole doesn't have to be dead perfect to the insert. It just needs to be pretty close. You can fill the gap with epoxy and sand it down before applying art. That's what the CPR guys do and probably what the original manufacturers did.
Xiaou2:
FYI :
According to the recent news, Pinmame no longer expires. Its also now
Open source:
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# 08/01/08
* PinMAME, PinMAME32 and Visual PinMAME 2.0 released
* As of 4:59 EST today, Visual PinMAME is completely open source!
* Since the last of Stern's Whitestar games turned 3 years old today, we are able to release the full source code to the public.
* At the same time, the expiry date was effectively removed, so there you have it, cabinet builders. :)
* Not a whole lot of new features I'm afraid, but it's all in the whatsnew.txt anyway.
Mauzy:
Well that was a handy turn of events...
Chris:
Thanks for the news... great timing!
JoyMonkey:
--- Quote from: johnmartin on August 15, 2008, 10:59:20 am ---The I-Pac is my method of choice since I can assign any keystroke to a specific item on the playfield and I can save the configuration to the I-Pac. I actually have a 1/2 dozen Happ pushbuttons sitting at home right now from my MAME build.
As far as lamp inserts, I was thinking that a Forstner bit would do nicely for that as long as you could control the depth accurately.
John
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You might want to think about using a U-HID rather than an I-Pac. It'll give you everything the I-Pac does, plus you can use it to control your lighting and solenoids (ie, fire your flippers, slingshots, popbumpers etc). When Andy first announced the U-HID, I was thinking that using a one (or a few) for this kind of application would be the balls.
Its built-in "U-HID locally-controlled LED output based on the state of any switch" feature would be perfect for easily setting up bumpers etc.
http://www.u-hid.com/
Now if you can find some powerful solenoids that fire nicely using 5v....
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