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Pinball machine using arduino

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Former Member over 13 years ago

Hi i was online where i saw people with the project idea to make a pinball machine using the arduino. I feel like the programming would not be too hard but building the circuits and the structure of the pinball machine would be a lot of work. I like the idea of making a pinball machine and i want to make it with a friend as a senior porject. My school has a machine shop i can use and my friend has experience building a minature pinball machine and is good at design. Is this project too ambitious or should i go for it?  Also if anyone has had experience in making a pinball machine, i would greatly appreciate advise. image

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    Former Member over 13 years ago +2
    I've been working on a custom pinball machine for a while. So far i have the 4 24x16 dot matrix displays working, a reasonable sound board capable of playing 2 sounds simultaneously (music and sound fx…
  • R_Phoenix
    R_Phoenix over 13 years ago +1
    Some links that might help, http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-26773/l/episode-9-see-ben-begin-building-a-pinball-machine http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-29781/l/episode-17-watch-ben…
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    0 R_Phoenix over 13 years ago

    Some links that might help,

    http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-26773/l/episode-9-see-ben-begin-building-a-pinball-machine

     

    http://www.element14.com/community/docs/DOC-29781/l/episode-17-watch-ben-builds-his-lost-pinball-machine

     

    There are more in other Ben heck shows,

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    0 Former Member over 13 years ago in reply to R_Phoenix

    Thanks for the info. Ben seems to use some other microcontrollers along with the arduino. Is it possible to have everything controlled by just one arduino?

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    0 fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I believe Ben designed a Propeller-based controller board.  It's a smart choice as the Parallax Propeller microcontroller has 8-cores and thus handles parallel tasks well. 

     

    The question of a single Arduino is really if it can process all the input and output within the time constraints of the machine.   I don't think there is a harm with starting off with an Arduino while you get a handle on the system.  You could always move up to the more powerful PIC32-based ChipKit when warranted and still program it in the Arduino environment.

     

    Cheers,

    Drew

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    0 fustini over 13 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I believe Ben designed a Propeller-based controller board.  It's a smart choice as the Parallax Propeller microcontroller has 8-cores and thus handles parallel tasks well. 

     

    The question of a single Arduino is really if it can process all the input and output within the time constraints of the machine.   I don't think there is a harm with starting off with an Arduino while you get a handle on the system.  You could always move up to the more powerful PIC32-based ChipKit when warranted and still program it in the Arduino environment.

     

    Cheers,

    Drew

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