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Miniature 9pin bowling table

beacon_dave
beacon_dave over 8 years ago

As quite a number of fans of the show appear to like Ben's miniature pinball tables, I thought some may be interested in the idea of a miniature 9pin bowling table.

 

I recently spotted one having been constructed using the Fischertechnik construction set:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBpiVlUsb34

 

There is a bit more info on the build here (page 28 - 31) but unfortunately I can't really read it as the article is in German, but the pictures look quite good image

https://ftcommunity.de/ftpedia_ausgaben/ftpedia-2016-2.pdf

 

It looks like it uses an old friend of Ben's from the camera tracking project, the PixyCam.

 

The design appears to have been based upon a project featured way back in a 1979 club magazine (page 5):

http://ft-datenbank.de/web_document.php?id=a32e0dd3-22c2-473b-9b17-43897999a726

which is quite amazing if you consider the technology available to hobbyists at the time.

 

Anyway, I thought that it may make for an interesting show project. How could it be improved ?

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  • makerkaren
    makerkaren over 8 years ago +1
    That looks like it contains a lot of mechanical elements. Could be fun or REALLY frustrating. Ha. Looks like they use glass marbles. I wonder what using a pinball would do to the scenario...
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    makerkaren over 8 years ago

    That looks like it contains a lot of mechanical elements. Could be fun or REALLY frustrating. Ha. Looks like they use glass marbles. I wonder what using a pinball would do to the scenario...

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    beacon_dave over 8 years ago in reply to makerkaren

    makerkaren I did place it in the 'mechanical' category  image

     

    If you want more mechanical, you could perhaps replace the pins on strings with the traditional rotating pin collector and stacker used in the real world machines image

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    beacon_dave over 8 years ago in reply to makerkaren

    makerkaren I did place it in the 'mechanical' category  image

     

    If you want more mechanical, you could perhaps replace the pins on strings with the traditional rotating pin collector and stacker used in the real world machines image

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