Mini Pinball 01: Project Mockup
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- Опубліковано 2 сер 2024
- In this episode The Ben Heck Team takes a look at the original pinball machine so they can rebuild it as their final long term project for the year. The original Mini Pinball machine was built to a 1:2 scale of an actual pinball machine but there wasn’t very good control to prevent the ball from flying all over the place. Visit the Ben Heck Page on element14: bit.ly/2nkoLXt
Ben Heck’s Teensy Pinball Portable Part 1 Episode: bit.ly/2nPPUFF
Episode 189: Ben Heck's Teensy Pinball Portable Part 2 Episode: bit.ly/2oDjwD5
The original mini pinball machine used a Teensy 3.2 MCU and a lot of hand-soldered components. The major parts in the original unit are a battery, an audio SD card that could be replaced with the 12-bit DAC built into Teensy 3.6, a volume knob that can be removed, and a start button that can be removed as well. After analyzing the original pinball machine, Ben and Felix test out 8 different sizes of balls. The original ball they used for their pinball machine was too light and floaty.
The surface mounted MOSFET Ben looks at is n-channel 80 volts and 39 amps which should be plenty for this project. A MOSFET is a metal oxide semiconductor that can switch powerful loads. After that Ben and Felix take out there meter to measure the charge on various battery packs. Felix breaks out a breadboard to do some solenoid testing. The hope is that they can use one size of small solenoid for everything on the mini pinball. Felix goes over a circuit diagram of everything they’ve wired up. It has 12 volts coming in, the VVD has 12 volts coming in, a diode, a solenoid that goes into the drain of the MOSFET, a switch that’s going to 5 volts, 5 volts comes into the gate, and there is a 10K pulldown resistor on the gate as well that goes to ground, and then the source of the gate goes to ground. The MOSFET allows them to control high current loads with regular TTL level signals (like a MCU).
While Felix mocks up a MOSFET test, Ben works on physical stuff such as what type of ball will work best. In the earlier project Ben was really hung up on making it to scale like a pinball machine but comes to realize that was a mistake because the physics didn’t scale correctly. The original mini pinball was 1:2 scale of a real machine. By rigging up a foam core mock-up they can scale for much more than just size. Ben scales the ball up, scales up the angle, and then uses a weaker solenoid.
Karen helps Ben with the models for the flippers to test for the mini pinball game and uses this experience to learn how to use Fusion 360 because she wants to get into 3D modeling. She starts by creating a couple of different circles in her sketch. They want the flippers to be approximately an inch and three quarters. She gives an overview of what she’s doing and how Fusion 360 makes calculations. After she’s done designing, they will 3D print her flippers, put it on the game, and see how it works. Before they do that, Ben takes Karen’s basic flipper design and turns it into another body and adds additional features. Meanwhile Felix is wiring up MOSFET controls so they can try out both flippers and put some things on the mock-up playfield to get an idea for what size is best. They’ll look at the strength of the flippers, the size of the solenoid, the length of the flippers, the size of the ball, the tilt of the playfield, and how deep it is. They’re going to mix all those together and try to make a playfield that is not too big but one that is more playable and has more control and weight as opposed to the original version where the ball is just flying all over the place. - Наука та технологія
I'm starting to think that Felix is the evil genius they are unaware of.
Oh no, we're aware.
Another great project. Looking forward to the Pinball build kit..
building a pinball machine is in my "gotta do it someday!" list
I'm definitely looking forward to more in this series. Building a custom mini-pinball would be a ton of fun!
Glad to see this project is one going forward, I think it's a great one for any maker who is just starting out and wants to build something fun and cool to play/display
Nice episode, I enjoy it when you guys go over the design process more and also adding small bits that would usually be hidden away like the way Felix was testing the solenoids, or the design of the flippers.
Welcome to On The Spot!
James Guan I was wondering if anyone else would notice that. :-)
Awesome! I am so ready to buy this kit when it comes out!
If you added a slot to your flipper, you could add an o-ring (stretched around the perimeter of the flipper). This would be more like the full-sized machines.
The snack bar close to my childhood home put the back-legs of its pinball machine (as opposed to the slot machine most others had) on some heavy-duty 4x4s to make them more challenging. So I was thinking that it might increase your mileage if you made the backside hight-adjustable.
You can also use trig to determine the length of the flipper pivot that attaches to the solenoid. If the solenoid throw is .5 inches and the angle is 50 degrees, then the length of the lever is .5 / sin(50), or ~.6527 inches. I have a handy cheat sheet for triangles written on the first page of my notebook. I just look at the diagram and decide what missing factor I want to know, then look through the list of formulas to see what matches the known and unknown.
loved the orignal build you did cant wait to see how this turns out , i get the feeling Felix is going to be working even harder on this though :)
"Yeah, this is a fancy awesome thing..." - That's enthusiasm right there
awesome build!
Correct me if I'm wrong here but wouldn't making the flipper hollow mean you're moving less mass and therefore delivering more kinetic energy. I know it seems like such a small amount of material would be removed in grams, but in percentage terms it could be enough to get you the Oomph you need. [Oomph - that's a technical term - ask Felix if you're unfamiliar :)]
you knock any hot glue loose?
I'd buy a mini pinball table kit off you, I'd actually be top scorer on a pinball machine for once!
Gonna try to make this for my husband's birthday!
I wanna live in a world with Star Wars again!
You should use the basic pocket computer you made ages ago to test the components on this pinball table. Since it's one of its use cases you demonstrated back then. :)
I would love to see a mini dmd pinball machine kit :)
Interesting old IBM box in the background there. Could it be one from the same eBay listing that LGR got his?
Now THIS is a project that will have a lot of appeal and I want to build one. Please spend the time and make this a quality build kit (or regular / premium versions). Battery operation is unimportant to me. I would favor having enough power for solenoids, etc. over limiting battery operation. I have a 3D printer and a lot of your viewers likely do as well and can print my own parts. It would be cool to invite a local pinball designer to help/critique the game play/flow like Steve Ritchie / Pat Lawlor, etc. That would be a great episode!! LIKE x 100!!!
Do an episode on finding your standard components like MOSFET's, resistors, caps, etc on Element14 for the cheapest price. I've always found seemingly the same component can vary significantly in price. My approach is always to go to SparkFun first then search other sites to see if they have the same part cheaper. Consider what a beginner would think when searching "MOSFET" on element14 then being left with the ~10,000 product choices and a list of categories that never seem to line up to what you think you're doing.
Awesome showing Fusion 360 step by steps! Perhaps do a whole video just on that? Show the whole process including exporting it to the 3D printer, etc.
Joshua Pritt I'm waiting for my first 3D printer to arrive. I'd like a series like that. :)
Joshua Pritt if you want good Fusion 360 videos watch NYC CNC
You should make the flipper circumference fit a standard rubber band size.
What about using the VN66AF MOSFETS on a heavy duty metal heatsink should work perfectly, I hope that you have the G-Code generator and compiler are installed otherwise it won't work out.
Go crazy, add some superconductor material to the ball and make it float in some surface of the pinball with magnets
Or just make the ball a magnet and use electromagnet coils within the board, then you could also trigger magnetic based events for the game.
I'm pretty sure I've seen some pinball games use this as a ball hold within the board, rather than using a physical stop.
pinball machines are gravity operated machines, you can scale the size, but you can't scale gravity.
Could also add magnetism for additional pull where gravity lacks the force.
cept it goes both ways...
Gaming with CrissyFox scale gravity by changing angle of box.
Balls of Steel
woo a reference to a shitty game!
Eskmm1 The game was good, it wasn't always shitty
I see you bought one of those new unopened IBM's like what Lazy Game Reviews bought :p
Ben's got balls
Did you guys just quit the n64 portable? Are you going to finish it in the future?
I'd love to buy a diy Mini-pinball kit!
I WANT TO LIVE IN THE WORLD OF OLD BEN HECK INTROS AGAIN!
This new intro just isn't knocking my hot glue loose.
"Some people just don't get it..."
Batten down the intros!
Make an n64 portable part 3!
I'm making my son a mini pinball :) let's see what ideas you guys have
For those with 3D printers could you reduce the price of the kits and include the autocad files so we could edit them if so wish rather than .stl
If I had the kit I might as well make a miniture Eight Ball Deluxe
at 5:18 the theme song for on the spot played
Can I up sign for the kit ?
The holy glue guns :D
5:09 what an elderly calculator
12:30 Make up your mind Ben! Is it a soinoid or a solenoid?
Does fusion360 not have a tangent correlation function?
It has a tangent constraint, which I think may be what you're asking. You can create lines that are tangent to the circles and then set the distance between these lines (effectively setting the distance between the outsides of the circles).
Good! I've never used 360 because of the inability to store files locally, so I didn't know.
It was rough to watch Karen working as she was, but we all have to start learning somewhere!
ColdShoulderMedia Ah, I'm not the biggest fan of online storage only either, though in my case I was eventually able to stomach it. Fusion 360 tries to make everything reasonably intuitive and lets you snap to all sorts of things automatically (though you can turn that feature off)- for that reason it does seem confusing at first that you cannot snap to the top of a circle automatically, so I can see why Karen was thrown off. Probably more than anything she just isn't too comfortable applying constraints yet, but after following some more tutorials I'm sure she'll get how they function.
What pushed you to start using 360?
I hope she starts using constraints they're so powerful!
Constraints are quite a blast to use- I love how they make a lot of seemingly difficult things into trivial tasks. I'm learning Fusion 360 since I wanted to learn modelling for the purpose of 3d printing. Beyond simply being interested in 3d printing itself, I'm very interested in how it can complement electronics based projects (such as with Arduino). As for why I picked Fusion 360 over another modelling software- it's almost entirely due to the (lack of a) price. The 3d printing community apparently often touts it as the best parametric modeler that's free for hobbyists. I do want to learn Solidworks due to it being the industry standard for Engineers, but I will not be a student for much longer and cannot afford a Solidworks Licence.
could make a working keyboard and mouse for the xbox one?
Final long-term project? It's only the end of March... ?
I'm confused by your comment. There's three long-term projects they are doing and he's done one video for each so far. They are all going to multiple part videos. This is only the beginning. Not trying to be a dink, just wondering what context you meant.
Can you purchase the one handed controllers somewhere? After my stroke, I've been really down because I can only play rpg's.
Yes.. Kind of... No...
Ben sells them on his website. Except they're not selling them at the moment, you can only get ones for XBone and only if you're American...
www.benheck.com/single-handed-controllers/
j ho If it was me, I would go to element 14 and see if I could commission one from someone in the community. In the meantime, have you played Crypt of the Necrodancer? I hear that the only controls are the arrow keys.
I am in the US and would need a USB controller. Thanks for the feedback
please do a mini series, Ben teaches Karen, (and everyone else) fusion 360
we going to knock some hot glue loose?
Video is too short. :(
I WANT iMac G3 1998 teardown now plz !!!
final long term project of the year? it's only march
is that an IBM PC in the box at 2:44.
Clint at LGR recently posted a video about finding a NOS IBM PC AT. (Someone found a warehouse full of them.) I wonder if Ben bought one too.
Brand new IBM AT 5170. Felix bought it about a month ago.
I forgot what your name is but what's the Stormtrooper next to your laptop
It's a nutcracker. But it doesn't open very far so it can mostly just mush up an already shelled peanut.
ah, Itsa hecksa gone! aka maximus sexangulae properiis! lol :P
Interesting - affordable?
You guys in the comment section suck. Stop asking for thinks! Watch&learn from the videos. The last videos were great, showing the process of making any idea into a almost ready to go product. Thanks for sharing Ben
Xano Trevisan Kothe UA-cam comment section is full of special snowflakes, everyone feels so entitled and begins to cry salty nerd tears almost instantly if they dislike the slightest thing in a video.
Yes... I feel really bad for Ben, I mean, he does things that are complex, sometimes in less than a week
5:20 "On the Spot"? xD
anyone else notice the 4 cell battery Ben kept calling a 6 cell
I've never seen a lipo with balance wires being wrong for the number of cells, even china batteries. I also use Turnigy batteries, same maker of the ones in the video. I can 100% without a doubt say that is a 4 cell battery.
how the hell are we supposed to help finish the n64 portable if the fricking comments are disabled!?
someone bought the new in box old IBM AT and keyboard, etc!
here's how to get the portable n64 working since the comments are disabled on that video:
buy Nintendo switch
wait for virtual console
done
3D print the board in parts
pro tip the statue of liberty is copper over a steel framework...
"Sure, that will be fun" says Felix in the most unenthusiastic and monotone manner.
slot loading record player?
Target Homing Nerf turret
interactive smart mirror
multi-function wrist device
wearable PC, eye piece, mobile keyboard, built in jacket
gaming desktop pc in a suitcase
Want to see the ben heck show get crazy
not that i didnt like this video, i was just throwing out some ideas.
@The Ben Heck Show: why haven't you guys built a full size pinball machine.
Bens made a quite a few of them and if you check his old website he has some articles on it. Its just not what made him popular in the first place online so he only brings pinball games out every once in a while. Even his online forum was all about the portable consoles and the book he wrote about converting Gen1/2 consoles to portables. (Very old benheck forum member here lol)
Connecting the diameter chord of two circles is an inferior design to finding two lines tangent to both circles. A good learning exercise for you guys is to do a find a way in fusion to do the flipper with smooth tangential lines instead of taking out a chuck of the larger circle as it seems you've done. It will look less hacked up. This is a great project can't wait to see how it comes out!
They have at least 2 pinball machines. Pinball design is a craft....not anybody can do it. The two pinball machines are the Paranormal EVP ghost hunting machine and the...sad to say now...The Bill Paxton pinball machine. I believe the Bill Paxton was just for fun, but the Ghost hunting one was a limited commercial release, that a lot of people are bad mouthing. It is difficult to make a pinball machine, which is why they are generally selling for $5,000 dollars new. Used ones can go for more then that.
What the heck was that >1min element14 advertisment in the middle of the video? Those 30s ones are annoying but that one?
and still no n64 part3 video
haha, felt like he wasn't digging it to begin with.
i know im looking forward to that
BitKrieger he was having trouble with it
Something, something, sacrificial ritual
Do you want some N64 handheldS and MORE? (Dreamcast, Gamecube and MORE!)? Just search for "MODDEDbyBACTERIA" or "jonjandran". Enjoy!
Dissapointing move disabling comments on the latest video. You're devaluing our opinion as an audience and missing the opportunity here for feedback.
Make a iPhone to hdmi adapter so you/we don't have to pay the $100 for apples one. Instead we can just make our own. Like if you want to see this happen.
I think pinballs are overrated.
Then you've never played Attack From Mars.
Yes, I haven't.
I think Sopan Kotbagis are overrated.
reasonablebeing What? Are you a twelve-year old?
Karen did not do anything useful, it seems.
uhh, that intro is SO cringworthy
Awkward host interplay....
Those might be some of the most expensive calipers I've ever seen