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kelemvor:

--- Quote from: jfunk on August 27, 2008, 03:10:15 pm ---Heh.  I did exactly what the other guys are saying, here.  Crafted a little plastic chute out of some leftover packaging and directed the coin from the slot to the switch.  It'll take ANYTHING you want to drop into it  :)  (Within reason...)

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That's what I was thinking.  As long as you don't want to make a DIY one that can tell a token from a coin from a button, etc, it should be pretty simple.

biktorrr:
Yeah, I'm gonna go with a microswitch with a long actuator and do the cardboard-chute thing. thanks a bunch

protokatie:
before I bought my coin door/mech system off of thenasty, I was going to have a chute that went down to a keyboard sitting in the bottom of the cab. Over the 5 and 6 buttons I was going to have cylendars that the coin would hit, and then fall off to the sides in a bin that was over the other keys. Sounds crazy, but from my tests a quarter dropped from 2 inches would trigger the key (laptop keyboard). Try it out yourself for a lark :D

Oh well, now I actually have the real deal and see no real reason to make a ridiculous contraption....

kelemvor:

--- Quote from: protokatie on September 01, 2008, 05:28:29 pm ---before I bought my coin door/mech system off of thenasty, I was going to have a chute that went down to a keyboard sitting in the bottom of the cab. Over the 5 and 6 buttons I was going to have cylendars that the coin would hit, and then fall off to the sides in a bin that was over the other keys. Sounds crazy, but from my tests a quarter dropped from 2 inches would trigger the key (laptop keyboard). Try it out yourself for a lark :D

Oh well, now I actually have the real deal and see no real reason to make a ridiculous contraption....

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That's funny.  Should rig up a chute and a moving keyboard like those games at Chuck E Cheese.  Tell people if they drop in a quarter and it hits the right key then they can play a game...

protokatie:

--- Quote from: kelemvor on September 02, 2008, 11:14:01 am ---
--- Quote from: protokatie on September 01, 2008, 05:28:29 pm ---before I bought my coin door/mech system off of thenasty, I was going to have a chute that went down to a keyboard sitting in the bottom of the cab. Over the 5 and 6 buttons I was going to have cylendars that the coin would hit, and then fall off to the sides in a bin that was over the other keys. Sounds crazy, but from my tests a quarter dropped from 2 inches would trigger the key (laptop keyboard). Try it out yourself for a lark :D

Oh well, now I actually have the real deal and see no real reason to make a ridiculous contraption....

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That's funny.  Should rig up a chute and a moving keyboard like those games at Chuck E Cheese.  Tell people if they drop in a quarter and it hits the right key then they can play a game...

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Hmm, could be a neat idea... Maybe even have different keys give different numbers of credits... :D

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