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My bet to a workmate over the future of cars
I like the guy trying to convince himself all will be better if only he holds onto it for a couple more years.........What, when his range is 1/3 of new and takes longer to charge wasting electricity in the charging process. I wonder how many mobile phones this guy has had in his life and then thought Telsa lithium was any different. How would you feel if the RTV ute traveled 1/3 the distance of when new and you had to fill it through a straw? -
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Is It Possible To Make A Homebrew Pinball for under $5000 ? PLAYFIELD AND PLAYFIELD PARTS
Sweet info @swinks Perfect hole centers data for a templet. I grabbed a copy of your blank playfield I can run through the printer, put on a clip board and draw. Might come in handy for a puzzle I have. Can you get a ball back in the return lane, (either return lane), from a flipper shot BUT without a ramp, overhead rails or a subway and as quick if not quicker than rails or a plastic track?.... I hate rails and plastic tracks, they block your view but the shot is rewarding.....I think it's possible like a UTurn on Space invaders but not dead in the center of the machine like Bally did. Might not be building but can't switch off the head. -
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My bet to a workmate over the future of cars
That sucks, my bucket of shit 16 year old RTV Ute hasn't even depreciated as much as a 4 year old Tesla https://cleantechnica.com/2023/08/18/how-much-my-tesla-model-3-depreciated-in-4-years/- 1
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Is It Possible To Make A Homebrew Pinball for under $5000 ? PLAYFIELD AND PLAYFIELD PARTS
Great info there @swinks I did the customer survey at ledsales - some competitive prices there - might help me avoid the dodgy stuff I sometimes get from China.- 1
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Is It Possible To Make A Homebrew Pinball for under $5000 ? PLAYFIELD AND PLAYFIELD PARTS
Lighting ideas -for the Egyptian Columns - you could draw up a column and then put a 3mm channel in the back vertical and run some of the this 2.7mm wide led strip https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005005549145092.html?spm=a2g0o.order_list.order_list_main.6.629718026Ho531 I get alot of led gear from Lance at Ledsales - real helpful guy, great range of leds locally in Australia (Tassie) - support local instead of going to aliexpress - he doesn't have everything but still a massive range. https://www.ledsales.com.au/ Playfield design - my take is when ever I sketch a concepts like Dukes of Hazzard or Tube Time or Space Invaders - I think about the the theme and what elements would be unique and recognizable for that theme and in the end often steers the design sketches and design to be unique. I tried to take a populated playfield and convert to a theme of my liking and it and/or the inserts just don't fit my vision. Here are a few tools that I created years ago when starting my design investigation and some of it might be of interest and might be handy and they are just suggestions - Italian Bottom layout / dimensions - But in sharing that there are soooo many slight to large variations and some designers like to reduce outlanes to add an extra inlane etc but it gives you some ideas. The next is a scaled playfield to doodle on. Enjoy- 2
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Wildball 2023
@SwedishTaxi said he might be keen to run it 🙂 -
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Is It Possible To Make A Homebrew Pinball for under $5000 ? PLAYFIELD AND PLAYFIELD PARTS
By mounting micro-controllers to the whitewood the number of wires needed to connect between playfield and "brain" is greatly reduced. Single serial connection to microcontrollers (USB) Flippers (DB9) Coil power (DC Quick Connector) Electronics power (DC Quick Connector) The cabinet has its own microcontroller for tilt, start, door, features, etc. Note: Flippers connect to playfield to enable the 'autofire' feature of OPP - this makes the flipper very responsive and protects the coils. You could connect the to the cabinet microcontroller, but you lose the advantages. -
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WTB Taito price insert plate for coin door
In search of a Taito plastic price insert plate for Space Invaders coin, like the one attached. Ideally a 20¢ player would be great, but I will consider other prices, especially if you have 2 to match. I did found a 25¢ version on ebay US for $33 plus another $35 shipping which is JUST ridiculous!!! If you have a spare one of these you can sell me for a reasonable price please let me know. -
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The Greatest Arcade Video Games book has arrived!
Nice one Evan. I got mine last week as well and I'm already half way through! The interviews are great. It was nice to read Tracey's insights and hear from the champions and arcade legends in Redelf and DBH. If we play any of the games in the book it should serve as a solid introduction on how to play them as well. Maybe it'll even bring in some new names and faces to the MGL fold. Speaking of which; school holidays start for me very soon which can only mean MGL 59 is fast approaching...*feels the excitement of the impending first coin drop*. 😉 -
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Is It Possible To Make A Homebrew Pinball for under $5000 ? PLAYFIELD AND PLAYFIELD PARTS
Talking the need for multiple white boards that introduced another problem, the wiring. Didn't want to use close to 3 meters of colour coded harness and dedicated pinball board connectors and pins for each white board so I come up with an easy way that used just one set of pinball board connectors with a few D sub style interfaces. It kept the wire usage down to pinball board connectors to D Sub interfaces in the head, (that remained part of the machine), and components on the playfield to D Sub interfaces on the playfield. Commercial D Sub cables were the interface harnesses between the head and the playfield saving around 1 1/2 meters of harness but more the saving was not needing to use another full set of pinball board connectors and pins on every white board. To change a playfield was unplug the D Sub leads at the playfield and plug them in the next and ready to go so no board connectors needed to be touched. Suited me fine, I just had to standardize the coil drives, lights and switch matrix pinouts used by the D subs and every white board I made would plug straight in ready to test using only the wire used on the playfield and some D sub interface PCBs. Heavy current loads such as + coil supply and GI supply would of used a heavier style connectors but again, at the playfield itself.- 1
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