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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
    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…
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    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 Former Member over 13 years ago

    Thanks for the info. i will make sure to take it in to consideration to have more than one processor. for now i will just use my arduino mega which has a significant number of i/o. the part that needs to be the fastest needs to be the leds so i will probably need another processor. leds seems kind of impractical though. it makes more sense to do it the way digital alarm clocks work. this project will be far in the future though so i have plenty of time to plan.

    Thank you all.

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    0 Workshopshed over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    A serial or I2C LCD should work for the display or you could use a selection of 7 segment displays for the score. Obviously pinball machine scores can go very high so you need to support a lot of digits.

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    0 Workshopshed over 12 years ago in reply to Former Member

    A serial or I2C LCD should work for the display or you could use a selection of 7 segment displays for the score. Obviously pinball machine scores can go very high so you need to support a lot of digits.

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    0 Workshopshed over 12 years ago in reply to Workshopshed

    Hi again, just spotted these LED matrix, you could put two or three of these together to get a nice display unit for your pinball machine, alternatively you could buy the bits and design your own circuitboard.  Product LinkProduct Link

     

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