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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Wed Jul 28, 2010 1:10 pm

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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Tibia » Wed Jul 28, 2010 4:58 pm

Man, you're just plowing right through this! Awesome work so far.
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Gaara Ichimaru » Thu Jul 29, 2010 11:14 am

Wow, it's looking pretty insane now, good luck, keep up the awesome work!
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Thu Jul 29, 2010 3:25 pm

Going to work on the displays tonight. Still need some more 16-segment LED displays but I can get the scoring part done.
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Haunted360 » Fri Jul 30, 2010 2:24 am

Very cool. I like seeing people build and program their own Pinball Machines. EPIC!

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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:23 pm

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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by lovablechevy » Sun Aug 01, 2010 4:50 pm

this is gonna be the most epic pinball machine ever
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by wallydawg » Sat Aug 07, 2010 11:58 am

No suprise that you are making this out of wood ;)
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Mon Aug 23, 2010 9:33 am

wallydawg wrote:No suprise that you are making this out of wood ;)
Like all pinball machines? :mrgreen:

It now has the name of RESET VECTOR. Very 80's and programming cliche.

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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:11 am

Most current picture taken this morning.

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The left switch broke but the replacement came in this morning.
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by lovablechevy » Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:12 am

*drools*
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:41 pm

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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Thu Aug 26, 2010 1:26 am

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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Rekarp » Tue Sep 14, 2010 8:51 am

PCB done. I decided to use a 555 timer as the watch dog. Keeps part count low and reliability high. I will post some more technical details later. A Watch Dog just makes sure that the solenoid controller doesn't lock up in case of a CPU lock up (i.e. crash). Basically tie a 555 timer to the Reset Pin of the 74HC595 and the input of the timer to CLK signal. If the CLK signal doesn't change for 1 second the 74HC595s will reset.

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PCB done for the input. It pulls all the inputs high and when the ball activates a switch the pin on the 74HC165 gets pulled low. The 74HC165 is a parallel in serial out which is the reverse of a 74HC595 essentially. This PCB has 32-bits worth of inputs and can be cascaded to allow more bits on the same DATA line.

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Going to order the boards tonight.
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Re: Pinball Machine

Post by Snow_Cat » Tue Sep 14, 2010 11:54 am

^ - -^ (Glee)

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