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Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 8:56 am
by Bergo
awesome! good work Ryan!

Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Mon Apr 04, 2011 10:38 am
by Kaldonis
You're getting closer and closer to that $5 I promised you.

Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:52 pm
by rsilk
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Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 9:03 pm
by Odemia
Starting to look like a real pinball game, with a fancy screen. Very nice.

Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2011 11:27 pm
by rsilk
Got the lamp driver board routed and drilled (yay cnc!)

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CNC Routing:
http://youtu.be/_8pEI5M7a9A

CNC Drilling (best thing ever):
http://youtu.be/UwgjgL_XnpM

Posted: Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:25 am
by nathanwiebe
Very impressive!

Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:32 am
by rsilk
Completed lamp driver board:

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If all goes well I should have the lamps firing this weekend sometime. Need to terminate a bunch of connectors first, and write some code to strobe the matrix.

Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 9:55 pm
by rsilk
Well, that went poorly:

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Now to figure out what I boned up...

Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:04 pm
by rsilk
It's a mystery to me... here's the schematic:

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The PNPs at the top are tip107, the NPNs are the bottom are top102.

Oh, the pullups are all 10k, and the resistors attached to the bases are all 470ohm.

Re: Project log - Pinball machine

Posted: Tue Apr 19, 2011 10:21 pm
by rsilk
Hah, I'm an idiot. This is why we do the math on resistors instead of just grabbing one that looks right.

3/4W through a 1/4W resistor = smoke escape