Fun With Pinball

I would have loved seeing this as a kid. I was obsessed with wanting to build a pinball machine when I was young. At the time my skills only stretched as far as cardboard builds with elastic band bumpers and pencils for flippers, but I got a huge kick out of making different layouts for the balls to travel around.

It would be great to see some home made efforts now with so many amazing off the shelf bits of tech and 3D printers.

The site is also a nice compliment to the Technology Connections series on old pinball machines [1].

1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ue-1JoJQaEg

I saw these on display at Pinball Expo in the Chicago area last October and they were magnificent. My kids loved pressing the buttons and seeing what happened, and I had a great time walking them through what's happening. The amount of creativity and ingenuity that went into these mechanisms and assemblies is something to behold. Especially the ones within the electromechanical (EM) games, which were basically 60s / 70s, they did so much with so little when it comes to computing power.

This is awesome stuff. I love pinball and I could almost see myself getting into building (a simple) one someday.

So cool, this is what the web was meant to be.

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