A self-proclaimed inventor of useless things, Niklas Roy has built the largest pinball machine I’ve ever seen. The Galactic Dimension pinball machine is indeed of galactic dimensions, towering at almost 20 feet tall, with a wide berth of almost 10 feet (3m×6m). The colossal game was constructed for the 2015 pinball exhibition at Phæno, a […]
Jan Klomp, as a child of the 80s, and according to him, “still a 44 year old child,” grew up with such wonderful things as the Commodore 64, arcade cabinets, and pinball machines. After building a MAME (emulated arcade) cabinet, he was introduced to the pinball versions, pinMAME and Visual Pinball, which allow one to […]
Jeri is a truly amazing person, who any aspiring engineer or technical entrepreneur can look up to. A self-taught hardware designer, Jeri has created products, hacked hardware, and shared her knowledge with the maker community for years. Her latest venture is as co-founder of Technical Illusions, developer of the castAR augmented reality system.
Amy Oyler, The Scientific Mom is at it again. This time she has a great hands-on project to present: a pinball machine you can make with household materials!
Young Maker Mark Balbridge constructed his own full-functioning pinball machine using a Raspberry Pi as the brains.
Michael Schiess shows the exhibits in his Lil Juju Mobile Pinball Museum. The centerpiece on display at Maker Faire Bay Area 2011 is his vintage machine that’s been refitted completely in clear plexiglass, so that attendees can see the inner workings of the pinball machine while its being played.
In her latest Intersil “Academy of Analog Pinball Wizardry” video, Jeri Ellsworth replaces an HC55564 Continuous Variable Slope Delta (CVSD) codec chip with one she reversed engineered into an FPGA. What in blue-blazes is a CVSD modulator? Watch the vid and find out — as usual, Jeri does a great job of showing how it works, how she reversed engineered it, and what the result are.
