Open-source pinball electrioncs https://diypinball.ca This week’s pinball work session was highly distracted, thanks to Randy bringing along his new binary game project. Here’s a rundown of the progress that was made: Danny and Randy worked on updating this website Mike and Alex continued work on getting MPF 0.5 to work with our config, and... Sun, 18 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0500 https://diypinball.ca/2018/02/progress-update-february-18-2018/ https://diypinball.ca/2018/02/progress-update-february-18-2018/ Hi folks! We’ve been a little silent lately, but we’re hoping to adjust that soon. For now, we’ve posted the hardware source files for the Base Board, Score Board and Raspberry Pi CAN board. The EAGLE schematics and layouts are available from: https://github.com/diypinball/ We’re going to post firmware sources as... Sat, 26 Jul 2014 00:00:00 -0400 https://diypinball.ca/2014/07/hardware-files-posted/ https://diypinball.ca/2014/07/hardware-files-posted/ One of the big questions we get is why we used CANBus to design the system. It’s normally used for automotive applications, so it’s certainly weird to see it in a pinball machine. What is CANBus? First off, an introduction. CANBus is an automotive networking standard – it’s used throughout... Fri, 25 Oct 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://diypinball.ca/2013/10/why-canbus/ https://diypinball.ca/2013/10/why-canbus/ We’ll be at Mini Maker Faire Ottawa this weekend, exhibiting our AF-TOR machine. Come out and visit us, won’t you? Info is as follows: August 31st & September 1st 2013, 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Canada Science and Technology Museum 1867 St Laurent Blvd, Ottawa, ON Admission to see makers... Thu, 29 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/mini-maker-faire-ottawa-this-weekend/ https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/mini-maker-faire-ottawa-this-weekend/ The three of us got together to try out the rest of the fixed base boards, and try and get some game logic done. The faults from Friday were resolved: A miswired switch was properly wired A burnt out lamp was replaced (though we could do with slightly brighter replacements)... Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/status-update-august-26-2013/ https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/status-update-august-26-2013/ This is going to be a series of articles about how the parts of pinball work, hopefully you find them entertaining, and more importantly useful! There are three main types of non-static objects that are on a pinball playfield: Lamps. These attract players, light up the playfield, and indicate what... Wed, 28 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/how-pinball-stuff-works/ https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/how-pinball-stuff-works/ This was our first time firing up the machine since Maker Faire Detroit, and thus the first time with the Solenoid MOSFETs replaced with properly-rated units. We re-installed the boards and bridged the 12V supply to the 50V input, at which point the system promptly shut down. Repeated attempts led... Sat, 24 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/status-update-august-23-2013/ https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/status-update-august-23-2013/ The first question we should answer is clearly, “Why are we doing this?” It all started when Mike got a pinball machine through Kijiji. He picked up what turned out to be a 1985 Wico AF-TOR that was billed as “somewhat working”. That, as it turns out, is a fancy... Thu, 22 Aug 2013 00:00:00 -0400 https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/why-are-we-doing-this/ https://diypinball.ca/2013/08/why-are-we-doing-this/