![]() The only non-negotiable game was Addams Family, which you can see in the demo after the break. Instead of settling for an older table or agonizing over the average price of newer tables, found a happy medium and built a full-size virtual pinball cabinet to play pretty much any table there is. Poor doesn’t have a table around for hundreds of miles. Things were looking up once booze-fueled b-arcades became a thing, but the pandemic economy may come for them soon enough. In the go-go 1990s, you could still find pins in places like coffeehouses and the odd gas station here and there as the commercial arcade began to fade into the past. If you’re looking for a tiny pinball machine but want more of the classic pinball feel, why not look at this scale pinball machine?Ĭontinue reading “Tiny Pinball Is As Cute As Pi” → Posted in Games, Raspberry Pi Tagged pinball, pinball simulator, raspberry pi, virtual pinballīeing a fan of pinball is bittersweet these days. All in all, an inspiring project that has a very high level of polish. Rather than use an off-the-shelf pinball game, wrote his own in C using raylib and raygui, two handy libraries that can be included in the project quickly. Volume inside, it is still a tight squeeze. Unfortunately, even with a relatively decent An Arduino Uno handles the three buttons, the four LED matrixes, and a solenoid for haptic feedback, communicating Laser-cut Baltic birch forms the enclosure, and a screen makes up the playing field rather than a physical ball. With access to a local makerspace and a bit of extra free time, had plans to capture the flavor of a full-scale pinball machine in a small package. However, when you don’t have the money or space for one, you have to make your own mini Raspberry Pi-powered one. Pinball machines are large, complex, and heavy boxes of joy and delight. Here’s one that fits in the palm of your hand.Ĭontinue reading “Virtual Mini Pinball Cabinet Scores Big” → Posted in Games, green hacks Tagged e-waste recycling, pinball, tilt switch, virtual pinball, wired xdisplay Check out the build/demo video after the break.ĭon’t even have the space for a mini cabinet? We hear you. Because what’s a pinball cabinet without a tilt switch? A cheater’s cabinet, that’s what. There is even a tilt switch in this bad boy. So how does the tablet figure into all of this? It’s connected to a PC via USB and does its job thanks to a piece of software called Wired XDisplay. One thing we really like about this build is that instead of designing a control board for the buttons, used a cheap USB joystick and wired them up to the pads. The SSD needed some attention first as well - it didn’t work sometimes, and didn’t show up in the BIOS at all, so threw it in the oven for 10 minutes at 250°, and now all is well. Since is a IT service specialist, they are lucky enough to have access to lots used and broken equipment, and that’s what this build is made of.Įssentially two computers working together, the playfield is a old 17-inch monitor that needed its LED lighting replaced before gracing the MDF cabinet The backglass is an ancient 10-inch tablet that was perfect for this application.Įven the motherboard, RAM, and SSD came from one of ’s previous PCs.
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