A childhood friend's dad brought one just like this from his tour in the Navy. We were told it was "broken" (i.e. missing the metal balls). But we later discovered that some glass marbles were just the right size. We had such fun playing with it after that. As an adult, I often wondered what it would have taken to refurbish it. So, thanks for some closure on that.
I live in Japan and have been in the pachinko parlors here. I have never seen one of the older machines. Man are they different. The newer machines don't have a launch switch like the one in the video. The newer ones have forced air that propel the balls into the machine. You have a knob that you can use to try and control the airflow rate. So basically game play goes a lot faster. Seeing the older machine was very interesting.
Omg this board is amazing, I just bought a machine for 20$ that’s working but needs electronics in it, what id give to visit you guys and work on mine together, great work!
Hey guys, cool episode! Ignoring all the ridiculous comments, this was a funny and interesting video. Thanks for making your friend a part of the show, Karen! To note: the outro audio was really low.
@The Ben Heck Show : I wonder if you could do something similar with table soccer? A switch on each of the players feet could activate commentary, the sound of the crowd could get louder the closer to the goal. Obviously goal switches (and the crowd goes wild). It would be funny to give the players silly names too, with a set of random comments between kicks etc... What do you think?
Fixing up an old Sankyo like this rn. Thought about adding something like this, but way too much. Just going to do the lights up and keep it old school. I think the playtime would be mire relaxing without sounds effects.
That was pretty neat to see a pachinko machine getting a bit of fixing up, even though those ones are mechanical and don't even need the sound effects.
Ben, you are very inspiring. I plan on redoing an old pinball and this video gave me really good ideas. Thanks for explaining the electronic wiring. Keep those awesome videos coming.
I really enjoyed this episode, good to have some good old fashioned teaching us about transistors. Although I feel a diagram could have come in handy showing *how* his test setup was wired, as the wide shot wasn't quite enough.
Just picked up my 4th pachinko machine in about 6 months today. Was not trying to collect them, but they keep falling into my lap. Might have 2 more coming soon as my friend looks through his stuff.
That's quite an upgrade and improvement. People sell a lot of those on eBay and antique stores that don't work and need restoration and are sold at very cheap prices. He'd have to purchase them but if they don't work, they're cheap. But just think of the prices he could sell them for if he gave them upgrades like that! Vintage pachinko machines that are modern at the same time!
Im assuming you only put a resistor on the base of the transistor? Does that resistor value have to be calculated, or do you just use some standard value?
I just got 2 old pachinko machines both need work. This was so cool to watch. I don't know electric stuff or connections. Do you or anyone convert these machines over like in this video? I would love to get more info on this if possible. Thank you :)
Love the rebuild & idea of sound effects. My problem now is that fill ball tray light switch which can't be fixed. Where does one get a micro switch? The win switch is ok accept I will have to cut the plastic weld over one contact arm for the weld/solder just fell off.
Enjoyed! I think I can figure this out, but a circuit diagram would be helpful, not sure if you dropped a diode in there and not sure how you are doing the 2 wire to the transistor. Also what control code did you generate as I'm not sure how to signal the LED as a "duty" cycle. If you are going to publish these, a link to the code (assuming you want to share), circuit diagram (back of a napkin or white board is fine), and .STL would be wicked, cool, awesome. Think I can figure out the BOM from the video. Thanks!
Google for "Pajatso" (or Payazzo) and you'll see the Finnish version of this game, which we stopped using in 2005. These were both invented in the very early 1900's.
Wow, that's great! Originally, Ben and I were going to make a machine from scratch. Despite neither of us having heard of these, the design resemblance was strikingly similar.
This is all so appropriate considering the name of the pachinko maker "NISHIJIN" could be translated to "West People" depending on the Chinese characters intended. It is in romaji though, which is alphabet letters, but the most common Japanese words were the basis for my translation.
BD131 would have been the way to go especially if you use a heatsink and mount the BD131s onto the heatsink use 3 pin connectors to connect the BD131s to the PCB which also holds the micro-controller.
Very interesting mod to the system. Great job you guys. :D Ben, I think you should check into some Teensy 3.2's or 3.5's since they are Arduino compatible and also their digital inputs are 5V tolerant. The Teensy 3.2 has one analog output and the Teensy 3.5 has 2 analog outputs. Plus the Teensy 3.5 has a microSD card slot so you could easily store some audio files on it for more interesting mods. :D
Wow, it actually got down to -5F (-21C) at night there just recently. If this keeps up, next project may have to be "upgrade the heating". Here in Moscow temp fell to -20F (-28C) last week... World is freezing!
"He got it for free" lol I know the feeling I had 2 Pachinko machines from that era, I couldn't even give them away. Most people have no clue what they are here in the States, much less want 2.
Could someone post a picture of the diagram with this circuit he made? I want to build one, but would hate to waste time trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with such a limited knowledge base.
Also what exactly is this driver board, I don't see a name stamped on it. I've used SparkFun WAV Trigger (robertsonics) but I like the smaller profile of this one?
Ben used the prop dev stick that is mentioned in the screen text. Ben got it from his friend at Macrofab. You can check out his github that has details about it. github.com/LonghornEngineer.
Awesome project as always! :) Do you think it would be possible to make a playstation 1 that would run games from a solid state hard drive using all the original hardware except the disc drive? I know emulation is easily available but I'm interested to know if it'd be feasible.
So sad to see that Philips FW C577 get torn apart. Such a great stereo; used to have one of those a while back. I remember having paid around $360 for it at Walmart.
You skipped on the code part of the microprocessor, it'd have been cool if we could have seen what you wrote to get all those features but like not in a long drawn out way maybe a link to the code and a rough guid explains what does what
I have one of those machines and there is another problem it would be good for you to solve. Could you devise a system to move the balls from the bottom collection container back up to the top input container? I would like to mount my machine in a cabinet and it would be nice to automate this process. Thanks.
Hole for the speaker could be anywhere along the bottom yet she decided it had to be right above the feet and then were surprised there were screws in the way 😅
Originally we were going to make our own original game and Ben and I argued about whether it would be a Plinko or Pachinko machine. I voted Plinko because it was supposed to be an alternative to a coin-pusher game, but vertical.
A childhood friend's dad brought one just like this from his tour in the Navy. We were told it was "broken" (i.e. missing the metal balls). But we later discovered that some glass marbles were just the right size. We had such fun playing with it after that. As an adult, I often wondered what it would have taken to refurbish it. So, thanks for some closure on that.
11:57 _"there are four lights!"_ Ha, that ST:TNG Reference! Really good episode that one.
I live in Japan and have been in the pachinko parlors here. I have never seen one of the older machines. Man are they different. The newer machines don't have a launch switch like the one in the video. The newer ones have forced air that propel the balls into the machine. You have a knob that you can use to try and control the airflow rate. So basically game play goes a lot faster. Seeing the older machine was very interesting.
I know this is an old comment but thank you for it, I did t know new ones use compressed air!
Omg this board is amazing, I just bought a machine for 20$ that’s working but needs electronics in it, what id give to visit you guys and work on mine together, great work!
Hey guys, cool episode! Ignoring all the ridiculous comments, this was a funny and interesting video. Thanks for making your friend a part of the show, Karen!
To note: the outro audio was really low.
@The Ben Heck Show : I wonder if you could do something similar with table soccer? A switch on each of the players feet could activate commentary, the sound of the crowd could get louder the closer to the goal. Obviously goal switches (and the crowd goes wild). It would be funny to give the players silly names too, with a set of random comments between kicks etc... What do you think?
Fixing up an old Sankyo like this rn. Thought about adding something like this, but way too much. Just going to do the lights up and keep it old school. I think the playtime would be mire relaxing without sounds effects.
sure wish you would offer this as a kit for existing pachinko machine owners!
That was pretty neat to see a pachinko machine getting a bit of fixing up, even though those ones are mechanical and don't even need the sound effects.
LOL... "There are FOUR lights".... Doesn't get much better than that.
Oh God, Konami got to Ben Heck! It's all Pachinko from here! :V
I wouldn't say it's priceless now, but it sure could be sold for about farty thousand dollars!
Cool finally some really outstanding fancy hardware
Ben, you are very inspiring. I plan on redoing an old pinball and this video gave me really good ideas. Thanks for explaining the electronic wiring.
Keep those awesome videos coming.
Beeeeaaaauuuuty! Love the Dave Jones reference.
Is there an already assembled 'Prop Dev Stick" for sale anywhere? I could not find it (only the schematics).
I love this show, watched every episode and now re watching them over :)
THE episode ben heck almost died of laughter xD
The number of balls in this video is TOO DAMN HIGH!
I haven't watched any of your videos for a while. This was a really great one though.
and thumbs up on the beard. engineers and beards belong together
Most I've ever laughed during a TBHS episode!
I really enjoyed this episode, good to have some good old fashioned teaching us about transistors. Although I feel a diagram could have come in handy showing *how* his test setup was wired, as the wide shot wasn't quite enough.
Just picked up my 4th pachinko machine in about 6 months today. Was not trying to collect them, but they keep falling into my lap.
Might have 2 more coming soon as my friend looks through his stuff.
HIT THE LEVER!!! i bet konami loves this episode >:)
That's quite an upgrade and improvement. People sell a lot of those on eBay and antique stores that don't work and need restoration and are sold at very cheap prices. He'd have to purchase them but if they don't work, they're cheap. But just think of the prices he could sell them for if he gave them upgrades like that! Vintage pachinko machines that are modern at the same time!
Best single episode project so far, topping just barely the EEV Dave See'nSay.
Once again, "oh this ben heck video looks interesting.... oh hey it's FRIDAY!!!!"
Happy to be a pleasant reminder for you.
When I was a kid there was a parlor down the street for me and I used to play this. Ones just like this from the 70s. You would pay a few dollars
They really need to update their intro.
The fart sound thingy needs to be in there!
Im assuming you only put a resistor on the base of the transistor?
Does that resistor value have to be calculated, or do you just use some standard value?
Way to go! Now I got to know something new again.
I just got 2 old pachinko machines both need work. This was so cool to watch. I don't know electric stuff or connections. Do you or anyone convert these machines over like in this video? I would love to get more info on this if possible. Thank you :)
Love the rebuild & idea of sound effects. My problem now is that fill ball tray light switch which can't be fixed. Where does one get a micro switch? The win switch is ok accept I will have to cut the plastic weld over one contact arm for the weld/solder just fell off.
Enjoyed! I think I can figure this out, but a circuit diagram would be helpful, not sure if you dropped a diode in there and not sure how you are doing the 2 wire to the transistor. Also what control code did you generate as I'm not sure how to signal the LED as a "duty" cycle. If you are going to publish these, a link to the code (assuming you want to share), circuit diagram (back of a napkin or white board is fine), and .STL would be wicked, cool, awesome. Think I can figure out the BOM from the video. Thanks!
Nice to see the Xbox in the intro being used to play games awesome work love the channel keep it up
Said it before and I'll say it again, I'm diggin' the beard.
That's awesome! I can't say i have seen one in Australia ever.
Ben, next laptop you make (or revisit) you should put a "keymander" in it so you can use a keyboard and mouse
Fart mode is epic! Now I'm hungry! xD
Do you eat farts?
Stranger I fart my eats
I eats my farts
Comment reported for "Sexual Content"... :)
NISHIJIN model B pachinko machine
Google for "Pajatso" (or Payazzo) and you'll see the Finnish version of this game, which we stopped using in 2005. These were both invented in the very early 1900's.
Wow, that's great! Originally, Ben and I were going to make a machine from scratch. Despite neither of us having heard of these, the design resemblance was strikingly similar.
"There are four lights!" lol Nice TNG reference, Ben!
Just an FYI the sun off snow will burn you like crazy. Sunscreen when you are skiing is VERY important. Also was it snow, or white sand desert?
Whoa the music started blasting at 16:07!
it would have killed the headphone users.
Awwww this is so entertaining......keep up the wonderful work
you beautiful beautiful people
Using a ULN2803 would reduce your soldering work quite a bit. It's my favourite component!
This is all so appropriate considering the name of the pachinko maker "NISHIJIN" could be translated to "West People" depending on the Chinese characters intended. It is in romaji though, which is alphabet letters, but the most common Japanese words were the basis for my translation.
I have one of these. Thank you for this video I may want to fix it and keep it.
Great video as always! The best start for the weekend :)
I hope Ben got her number. I sense love is in the air
:)
For Pachinko machines!
That's what the kids are calling it these days
Play it smooth Ben, play it smooth... ;)
Ben is an engineer, not a "look into my eyes and fall in love with me" type 😀
love the subtle Next Gen reference.
Great video as always Ben!
Was Ben stood in the parking lot while doing the voice over for the element 14 bit right at the very end?
BD131 would have been the way to go especially if you use a heatsink and mount the BD131s onto the heatsink use 3 pin connectors to connect the BD131s to the PCB which also holds the micro-controller.
Now that was a fun ep
"We can 3d print the parts that are missing!"
OH MY GOD THIS ERA WE LIVE IN! I NEEEED A 3D PRINTER :3
When the manufacture doesn't make parts anymore for this machine.
Love the Star Trek reference "There are FOUR lights!"
Hello, Ben, I'd like to suggest a project. A wireless HD. Modify an HD by placing a wireless module so that you can transfer files. What do you think?
Very interesting mod to the system. Great job you guys. :D
Ben, I think you should check into some Teensy 3.2's or 3.5's since they are Arduino compatible and also their digital inputs are 5V tolerant. The Teensy 3.2 has one analog output and the Teensy 3.5 has 2 analog outputs. Plus the Teensy 3.5 has a microSD card slot so you could easily store some audio files on it for more interesting mods. :D
is it cold in your workshop because poor Karen always looks freezing
If it gets below 60F I'm cold. But yes, Wisconsin winters are brutal and the heat in our shop is only so good.
Wow, it actually got down to -5F (-21C) at night there just recently.
If this keeps up, next project may have to be "upgrade the heating".
Here in Moscow temp fell to -20F (-28C) last week... World is freezing!
Jesus christ! The lowest it got here in January was -5°C or so
"He got it for free" lol I know the feeling I had 2 Pachinko machines from that era, I couldn't even give them away. Most people have no clue what they are here in the States, much less want 2.
Could someone post a picture of the diagram with this circuit he made? I want to build one, but would hate to waste time trying to figure out what I'm doing wrong with such a limited knowledge base.
So which episode IS that line "I want to live in a world with Star Wars again!" from?
holy crap, you guys got the same pachinko machine that I found!
Nice! Now I know what to do with my pachinko machine! LOL
Whoops, the Element 14 outro is very quiet. Anyway, loved the episode!
excellent episode
I'm gonna hear Felix saying "Please load balls" in my head for the next month at least
Also what exactly is this driver board, I don't see a name stamped on it. I've used SparkFun WAV Trigger (robertsonics) but I like the smaller profile of this one?
Ben used the prop dev stick that is mentioned in the screen text. Ben got it from his friend at Macrofab. You can check out his github that has details about it. github.com/LonghornEngineer.
The e14 outro title card audio is very quiet, just so you know
This is the exact same model of pachinko machine my grandfather brought back from Japan.
You woke up at a friends place!? Explain...
Without previously noticing the pachinko machine . . . .
Anybody smell a bit of...."spirit" in the air?
Mickel she banged a guy for his pachinko machine
Awesome project as always! :)
Do you think it would be possible to make a playstation 1 that would run games from a solid state hard drive using all the original hardware except the disc drive? I know emulation is easily available but I'm interested to know if it'd be feasible.
So sad to see that Philips FW C577 get torn apart. Such a great stereo; used to have one of those a while back. I remember having paid around $360 for it at Walmart.
I picked it up next to a dumpster. So in a way, I saved it...sorta.
what's going on with the audio mixing on the credits
Any time Ben Heck could show us how to build a Commodore 128 power supply? Maybe make one that works on rechargeable batteries? 😍😍😍
I love the nod to EEVBlog at 6:54
I love these videos... great stuff!
11:57 StarTrek TNG reference "There are 4 lights!" I laughed... No one else did.
Very interesting project but why are we sent to MacroFab to learn more about that Prop Dev board? I see nothing there about it.
Neat. My uncle has a copy of that same machine.
Do a "Tomy Turbo Dasboard" hack / rebuild / upgrade?
great job, I love the rebuild videos.
You skipped on the code part of the microprocessor, it'd have been cool if we could have seen what you wrote to get all those features but like not in a long drawn out way maybe a link to the code and a rough guid explains what does what
I have one of those machines and there is another problem it would be good for you to solve. Could you devise a system to move the balls from the bottom collection container back up to the top input container? I would like to mount my machine in a cabinet and it would be nice to automate this process. Thanks.
Another fan suggested that last spring, but we didn't have a machine at the time. Maybe we'll try it this year now that we have one.
My father in law has been asking me to try to repair one of these. Might have to do something like this myself.
These were big in the UK and US, think they were from UK first?
i envy electrical engineers who can play around with circuits like its a walk in the park
best ep yet!
Ben's hair has migrated down to his chin? ;) (j/k) the face fungus suits him somehow. He looks a lot like LGR though.
Christian Gerefalk was thinking the exact same thing
Ben and Clint could be long lost twins
He should shave his head and concentrate on the beard... ;)
Amazing hacks, regrettable beard
burakgursoy lol. "I wanna live in a world with fringe hair again!"
Hole for the speaker could be anywhere along the bottom yet she decided it had to be right above the feet and then were surprised there were screws in the way 😅
Omg can I have this!!!!!?????!!!!! Great job!!!
Why is not one of the sound options Konami Mode?
The Price is Right show has this game in a giant form factor and i believe it's even called Pachinko
It's similar. I believe it's called Plinko on the TV show
You are correct Plinko
Plinko
Originally we were going to make our own original game and Ben and I argued about whether it would be a Plinko or Pachinko machine. I voted Plinko because it was supposed to be an alternative to a coin-pusher game, but vertical.
Music at 16 minutes far too loud. Hard to make out what Karen was saying.
Agreed. I also thought the outro music was a bit loud.
I know, childish of me, but I laughed every time "balls loaded" came up! :b
I need a "Balls Ready" and "Jackpot" switch of my own.
You should make a bomb game like that game where one person decodes the bomb moduals and the other has to follow the directions
gotta love Karen's RTFM mug
The Ben Heck Show? More like The *Beard* Heck Show. ;)