Mini Pinball 10: Designing a Super Case
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- čas přidán 13. 09. 2024
- In this episode, Ben designs and cuts the plywood enclosure for the mini pinball machine. It’s all tabbed together with screws and nuts. The playfield opens up to access the board. The bottom of the unit is also opened up for easy access to IO from the bottom of the unit. Visit the Ben Heck page: bit.ly/2DqwnkA
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A few months ago they built the flipper ball loading mechanism along with some buttons. Ben’s torn it up because he wants to see how it interfaces with a paper pattern, representing the shape of the new machine, that's been cut to full size. In this case, it's faster to do something with foam core and physically put it together than it is to draw everything on the computer and figure out if things are intersecting. It’s also cheap and quick to mock-up the design with foam core. After fitting it together, they can figure out placement of the flipper buttons. Once he knows it works with the form core he’ll move onto the more expensive six millimeter plywood.
Ben gets to work designing in illustrator and continues assembling the pinball kit using the foam core. He’ll also design a board mount. They want to line up their board so that the display is centered. He does a few more tests with the foam core before cutting the more expensive wood. As the cabinet takes shape, an interference between the wood joints and ports on the board emerges that would cause the structure being unstable. Ben goes over some options with Felix. Another consideration for placement of the board is how difficult it would be to access all the plugs for input and output.
There at the point where its time to redesign the circuit board, print it out, draw that into their design, and then finalize or prototype the rear panel and both of the bezels. Modifying the PCB hasn’t been too complicated so far. Ben goes over all the changes that were made to the circuit board. He moved the LCD half an inch up, left the Arduino where it was, he moved the Teensy about .7 inches to the right, then he moved the power switch and the power plug to the right, and extended the circuit board to the right to accommodate them and the Teensy. Now that he’s got the PCB figured out physically, Ben completes the rest of the case and assembles it. After adding the bezel, he puts in the pieces that hold the playfield together. This will show him how the playfield fits in relation to the bezel and they can put in the back along with the faux circuit board. The bottom of the pinball machine is open for easy access to input and output.
This definitely seems to be the turning point in this series :) I'm always so pleased when I get to see a prototype fully built. Although I'm not actually touching the thing, it's like I can feel the actual difference between drawings and paper segments to an assembled wood box. It's really getting me pumped for this project more than I've ever even been pumped for regular sized pinball.
the awkward tv-style announcements at the start really killed that for me.
Another good episode, these projects are real missions, a large amount of effort going into this, makes you realise the work that goes into product development. Felix in the background at 7.40, that look, something not gone so well.
Love seeing this come together - great job!
Amusing that in 2018 nothing beats real world testing. Great channel mate. Love ya work.
It's coming along pretty good, but I would change one thing: I'd laser out holes instead of having the 'plus signs' - the play pieces are kind of flimsy, and with the awesome access hole on the bottom, you could easily just screw pieces on through the bottom using the circular holes. The pieces would be more secure this way. (I saw one kind of shake around a little bit in the video). Otherwise coming along nicely. Keep it up! Cheers.
Yay for progress!
Gomez ...
The Addams Family Pinball is my fave pinnie of all time ;)
You should consider trying to fit in a full-size DMD for the scoreboard.
I'm always expecting Felix to do some shenanigans back there, put on a clown mask or something. But no, nothing, maybe he's up to something on his computer there? Taking over the world there buddy?
I visited the Bodgery a few months back during one of their open house nights. Pretty cool place!
Really great project! You should produce and sell these mini machines! And also add multiball! It would be perfect!
Luca Fredella Well, they ARE planning a Kickstarter for this, so... ;-) Buy the kit, get it cheaper and put it together yourself, I guess, kind of thing.
What was Felixs' "other" option for the board? He was cut off before he could say.
If making a "mini" pinball machine wouldn't you use really small "pinballs" such as maybe the size of those in a chinese pinball game? Then you could really scale the size down. When you were doing the infrared experiment it appeared that you were still using a regular sized pinball or am I mistaken? Anyway, it is just a thought that if you scale down the ball used that you could really scale down the playing field and other parts. Then it could even possibly be a mobile pinball machine for long car trips lol Oh, which reminds me that you may want to add an "Audio out" jack for headphones or bluetooth for wireless headphones if really going for a mobile mini pinball. Or they can just download a pinball video game lol
Glad to see Felix getting more involved and even coming up with some great ideas! Good job Felix!
A standard pinball is 1-1/16" whereas the pinball in the mini kit is 5/8". I suppose we could go smaller, but it's nearly half of the size of a standard pinball.
Is there any concern/potential that the speed of the pinball coming off the paddles could break the cut&curved wooden dividers if placed near the bottom row?
Random challenge idea: Can you build a standalone AR headset similar to Smartglass?
Nice episode :)
props on the TRS80. if i could post a pic here it would be me holding mine. I have mine with a serial app (basic written) to interface with my linux based server for sheer nerdism on system monitoring
I personally don't care for the modular design. It's a good idea in theory, but in practice it'll never be that great. If you want multiple play fields, then make multiple kits that have better individual designs. Modularity also takes away from the physics, you can't have a single standard piece that goes into multiple slots and have the same outcome each time; a ramp with a slope that's designed for modular rows further back, but placed in modular rows closer to the front of the table, will cause it to perform improperly and disrupt the momentum of the ball, and possibly cause the piece to make that specific table design unplayable.
It's coming together nicely, but the flipper buttons are too low. It seems like they can't be at the top, but maybe up a bit further?
they might be adding riser feet to the corners .. this could give you 1/2 - 1.5 inch rise off the table top is that is the concern
Saved wood on the bottom??? Did i miss something?
Unless you can use the cutout piece for other projects ,all you saved is weight.
They lasercut the pieces, so they can just cut some smaller pieces out of the leftover piece.
There are no leftover pieces you just cut out the smaller pieces needed in the pinball machine from the same piece of wood that you used to make the bottom all at once, in the same session.
Dr Strange collar 😂😂😂
Great concept kit, though, to me, it looks like the flipper buttons are too low.
what about plexiglass to protect the display board or just have that white and project the score onto that back panel using a laser just a thought, can you get a new CO2 gas laser to replace the the laser that went kapoot.
looks great
Wow. Your preview didn't trigger my Alexa. Good job.
Can you make noise canceling headphones?
Everyone's laser Tubes are Dying, Diresta, William Osman's hackerspace (and you know, is house burnt down.) and Ben's!
10/10 would buy
Awesome
Lets play What month was this filmed. My guess November.
Pin ball yay wish I could have one
Won't the unused pluses that hold the playing field parts affect the rolling of the ball?
It would, but the plan is to have a thin layer above it that only has the cutouts for that particular design. There would be multiple versions with holes cut in different configurations, but only the holes use in that design.
I've wondered why use this design. It means you can't have lighst and indicators on the playfield as you would need to cutout those spaces from the underlying board. Also, why redesign the PCB? just remove the LCD from the board and use a connector and cable.
Less assembly I'd imagine, and also like Ben mentions, to fix the depths on some of the connectors to the wall of the enclosure
You can tell this project is getting to them, they havent shaved in a while.
The second 😭😭
you need better thumbnails - IMO, the colors and text are all wrong - they dont catch your eye
I wonder how the ball will roll on the part with the holes in it 🙄
JaapioNL It'll have a thin sheet over the play field, with only the plus cut-outs for that particular design in it, so it won't affect the play or ball at all.
Haha wow, my ok google just activated Ben said: "Ok, we're"
NOTIFICATION SQUUAAADDD
No Karen = Thumbs Down!
Nothing happen, people show how to build whole computers in 15 minutes. You made a box! Come on step up the content.
English less, people build computers not fun, no entertain
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