Stern Flipper
Desiderato Chouinard
I help a guy with a LOTR that looks like it was in a meth lab for 10 years. Any part with any metal on it is corroded, including the transistors. I replaced one of the flipper transistors with an IRL540 a while ago and he called me back a few months later and said the right flipper was bad again. Turned out the right flipper button contacts had corroded over. Cleaned them up and it worked fine. No sockets for this LOTR. (yet)
Venture into the enchanting world of Jim Henson's Labyrinth through the magic of collectible pinball! Limited to just 1,100 games worldwide, this unique experience will transport you to the heart of the Labyrinth, where fantasy and reality intertwine.
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Just finished getting this working yesterday. This shield interfaces an Arduino Mega to a fairly large class of early solid state Bally and Stern
machines that share a common MPU architecture and cabling to the switch matrices, solenoids, feature lamps, and score displays. In these machines the score displays and feature lamps are time multiplexed by an interrupt service routine. A separate ISR queries and debounces the switches and turns off momentary solenoids that should not remain activate too long. I've got that all working in a library and have added some additional support like edge event detection on the playfield switches. Some of the pinballs in this class have sound cards, but it wasn't feasible to interface the Mega to those sound cards because they are designed to tap directly off a 6800 processor bus. So, I included the capability to play sound effects off SD card files based on a design by Chan, along with an audio amplifier. Why did I do all this when you can buy replacement MPU boards for these pinball machines? I intend to teach an embedded systems class where the students can write code to control a pinball machine as part of the course. I could have them write 6800 code for the original Bally/Stern MPUs, but it is impossible to find an In-Circuit Emulator for the 6800 anymore, so I decided to create an shield for the Arduino instead. This could also be used by pinball hobbyists (like myself) to customize the behavior of a pinball machine. It's been a fun project and I've learned a lot about both Arduino and Bally pinball architecture in the process. Pictures attached. The picture with score displays on is showing a test that cycles through the 2 x 8 cabinet switch matrix, which is separate from the playfield switch matrix. The player 1 and player 2 displays are cycling thru the switch states in row 1 and 2 of the matrix, respectively. This was actually my first PCB layout, for which I used Express. The Express tools aren't the most capable of the free or inexpensive tools out there, but the board production is inexpensive and the learning curve on the tools is negligeable. Very intuitive.
Thanks benboogaard. Students will be using this to reprogram a Bally Mata Hari that I recently restored in my CSCD 496 Embedded Systems class at Eastern Washington University this Spring (April-Jun 2013).
This gives me the opportunity to fill a gap in our articles. So here is the test of this pinball machine that we ranked among the 10 best pinballs of the 2010s. Report to the fact that it was released in 2018.
In short, the humor works, the voices are nice, nevertheless we remain on a machine adapted to all the family and thus remains in the register of the acceptable by the largest world. Perhaps the artwork is the most divisive aspect.
Can we blame the manufacturer for using Zombie Yeti so often? On the contrary! His very colorful style fits perfectly to our machines, and the composition is dynamic. If, for Godzilla, the choice of such a vivid palette could be surprising when the animations on the screen refer to the old Japanese movies of the 60s, here the universe of Deadpool lends itself very well to saturated tones. The character does not do in half measures, and the artwork either, everything is good.
The large loops at the bottom of the board also make an impact. Moreover, on the Premium and Limited Editions, the left loop serves the right flipper via a ramp that lowers according to the playing phase. Classic, but very effective.
Finally, the left ramp is ultra short and, after a half-turn, delivers the ball at high speed to the left flipper. By the way, it is made of metal colored in red in its Premium and Limited Editions, a nice change from the ugly plastic ramps.
I leave you the pleasure to discover the principle of the Wizard Mode and the Mini-Wizard Mode. Of course, I just touched the fight with Sauron the Pterodactyl, but my silence will leave your pleasure intact. #lowscorepinballwizard #dishonesty
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