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Former Member over 10 years ago

Assuming that Ben Heck himself is able to read these comments, I would like to mention the following, if I may:

In episode 115, you mentioned the possibility of using the BeagleBone Black to drive the same LCD display featured in episode 169 in order to create a pinball machine display. Granted, it would probably cover the same subject matter as episode 169, but it would be interesting to see other projects being built with the BeagleBone Black.

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Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

At one point my goal was to use a beaglebone black as the core for my diy Pinball machine too. There is an existing FPGA Cape called 'logibone' but I have never found anywhere to buy it.
If you search for 'Medieval Madness Remake' on Internet you will find some picture of the internals of the machine and you will see they use a beaglebone black as the core. They drive the lcd screen directly with the hdmi output of the board (connected to an lcd controller board) not the most efficient way IMO.

http://www.planetarypinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/MMRCTRL.jpg
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Former Member over 9 years ago in reply to Former Member

At one point my goal was to use a beaglebone black as the core for my diy Pinball machine too. There is an existing FPGA Cape called 'logibone' but I have never found anywhere to buy it.
If you search for 'Medieval Madness Remake' on Internet you will find some picture of the internals of the machine and you will see they use a beaglebone black as the core. They drive the lcd screen directly with the hdmi output of the board (connected to an lcd controller board) not the most efficient way IMO.

http://www.planetarypinball.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/MMRCTRL.jpg
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