Episode 189: Ben Heck's Teensy Pinball Portable Part 2 Episode

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Ben's Teensy 3.1 miniature pinball machine is back and it's live! Watch him complete the project he'll be bringing to the Freescale Tech Forum this month.

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TaylorTronics over 6 years ago

Hay Ben, love your show. Can't wait to watch it each week.
It's amazing how quickly you built that PB machine.
Some ideas

1/ Instead of cutting holes in the ply for lights, and filling them with plastic plugs, cover the board with a sheet of perspex. This will save a lot of work making plugs, and give a smooth surface for the ball.

2/ It is a cool Pinball, but to make it look 'real', a back stand would work.

Peter
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fisher0251 over 6 years ago

The original whiteboard outline of this portable lists that it is battery powered, but it seems that info didn't make it into the episode. Can you share what was required to power it? Any problems you encountered. My son and I are starting to work on our own, and I'm not sure if I'll make it battery powered or use a spare PC power supply.
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fisher0251 over 6 years ago in reply to hyla@mayn.de

Alyson has transitioned to a better place... (a different job, not dead).
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hyla@mayn.de over 6 years ago

Say, how do You print with Ninja-Flex? All I get is a bunch of these:
Very flexible indeed but I'm not so sure about the "Ninja" part ...
(in fact, it's quite fluffy. like a kitten. Where's Alyson, b.t.w.?)

Christoph
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Former Member over 6 years ago

Such a cool project, I've actually came and registered on the website because of this, want to make my own! but full size!
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