So, I have still been working on the pinball machine! Let me mention though, that you should never fool yourself into thinking that you can work a 40hr/week job, AND actively build a pinball machine at the same time. That being said, here’s some of the small progress I’ve made recently. 🙂 There’s some of […]

There’s nothing like getting a full time job to slash the productivity on a hobby project. The things we do for money! Meanwhile, I finally broke down and decided to completely re-wire the cabinet. Not the playfield mind you, just the cabinet. Pictures earlier in my blog demonstrate how messy it was, but now it’s […]

The Raspberry Pi has been quite a champ so far, but I need to push the performance of my I/O Circuitry to the next level, and most importantly, I need to free up the Raspberry Pi for more advance graphics rendering, and in the end, some awesome vector animations. 😀 But currently, the Raspberry Pi […]

So, while I had a graphics module written several weeks ago, it didn’t really work because there was one main “game loop” for the whole system. The result of that was that the RaspberryPi would often miss a bumper trigger because it was busy drawing the screen. I brought the problem to my brother Timothy Baldridge […]

I think we’re due for an update again. In recent pinball history, I’ve got the backbox art set in place, and an HDMI screen and audio connected to the Raspberry Pi The board for the screen and speakers is obviously just set in there, and the artwork is only wedged in place. But you get […]

So, today I installed a 5 bank drop target assembly. It’s not wired up yet, but it looks pretty good!     They actually look pretty good, IMO. You can see that the targets will probably be best hit off the tip of the left flipper. The southern-most target isn’t easy to hit. It’s not […]