Status: This is a project in planning state. Currently, these are just thoughts and ideas noted for future usage -- once I have time and/or materials needed for this. If you want to help me with the materials issues, you can check the WishList for an overview what I am missing. Usually, though, the missing resource is just time. To be honest, I am currently not actively working on this. It is so large a project... At the moment, I have to build up some electronics self-confidence to feel able to continue tackling this thing here. It eats so much time, and progress is so slow...
The goal of this project is building a pinball machine from scratch. On these pages, progress and steps to making it is documented. The project was started on April 29, 2003 - and an end is not yet in sight.
As I have to learn quite a bit to be able to design and build all the aspects of a pinball machine (on the Ripley's pin, there is a sign stating there were about 3500 parts in a pinball machine, which all have to work together in some way!), working on this projects takes some time. Another delaying factor is that the whole project's financing comes out of my own personal pocket - there is no sponsor (yet?) for this but my own income. So sometimes I have to wait a while before buying this or that nifty thing I absolutely need before proceeding with something. /CostOverview contains an overview of how much money I sunk in this project so far.
On these pages, I document the process and progress of my pinball machine design and building. It is divided into several subsystems, which I view as seperate building blocks I am working upon mostly independently. All the pinball project pages are searchable through the CategoryPinball.
For all the subsystems of the pinball machine, I have created separate pages where more detailed information will be collected. This main page will contain a general project overview and status. For lots of things (not only tangible parts, but also interface specifications, documents and drawings), I have assigned part numbers for easy reference in the partnumber overview. As mid-term storage, there is a dedicated /NotePad.
My plans on what exactly to do next are listed in /NextSteps. Things I have done might be listed in the /ProgressLog.
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