We have shared a lot of pinball-related builds over the years from the immersive to the gigantic to the dankest of the dank. It’s about time we featured his work again. Take me out to the Maker Faire! Click to embiggen.Ībout five years ago, we covered ’s build of an atomic clock from pinball machine parts. Probably couldn’t do that again in a million summers.
The derby game wasn’t working, but I managed to load the bases and get a grand slam in the baseball game. Both of these were built with education in mind all of the guts including the original fabric-wrapped wires are prominently displayed. also brought some of the original games he has created by combining several systems from different machines, like a horse derby and a baseball game. Each of the systems also has a display card with an engineering drawing of the mechanism and a short explanation of how it works. All of the units are operated using large and inviting push buttons that have been screwed down tight. Most of the pieces he has built are single units and simple systems from pinball machines-flippers, chime units, targets, bumpers, and so on-that he affixed to wooden boards so that people can explore them without breaking anything. was motivated to build these boards because he wanted to get people interested in the way things work through interaction and discovery of pinball mechanisms. In the sunlight-filled atrium of the Museum of Nature and Science, sat behind several long tables covered with his creations made from mid-century pinball machines. There are about two dozen pieces in his interactive exhibit, which made its debut at the first-ever Northern Colorado Maker Faire in 2013. This was made abundantly clear to me during repeat visits to his expansive booth at Denver Mini Maker Faire last weekend. He just knows that a lot that can be done with simple switches, relays, and solenoids and wants to share that knowledge with the world. Posted in classic hacks, home entertainment hacks Tagged Der Lügner, greebles, pinball, virtual pinball But never before have we seen one with so darn many greebles. Heck, we’ve even seen a virtual machine built into a real pinball machine’s case. This is probably the most elaborate virtual pinball build we’ve seen, but it’s not the only one. All of the details are there, from the mechanical design to the part selection. (And wrote us back about the date in the name: it’s when he and his girlfriend met 20 years ago, playing pinball nonetheless!) ’s 3D printer was working overtime churning out not only fan ducts for the computer that lives inside the case, but also dia-de-los-muertos themed foot brackets and all sorts of loudspeaker covers and dinosaur accoutrements. And there are greebles galore in this build.
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We also learned how to say “greebles” in Swiss-German: “ greebles“. The awesome case, huge monitor serving as the playfield, bump and tilt sensors make this a droolworthy device. You can watch the plans, and the build progress on ’s project diary (in German, translated here). One click on the wrong YouTube link, and one sleepless night after being introduced to virtual pinball, and, aka Swiss hip-hop rapper, was at work on his own design. Reset consists of letting the numbers spin freely to 9999 then doing a last little push for a clean rollover to zero.Ĭontinue reading “Amazing Meccano Pinball Machine Fully Functional Before Meeting Its Fate” → Posted in classic hacks, Slider Tagged electromechanical, meccano, pinball, pinball machine, retro gaming Meccano electromagnets are too weak to drive the numbers directly, so a motor turns all numbers continuously with a friction drive and electromagnets are used to stop the rotation at specific points.
For example, look at the score counter below. Some elements are relatively straightforward, others required workarounds to get the right operation, but it’s all beautifully done. The video (embedded below) is very well produced with excellent closeups of the different mechanisms as gives a concise tour of the machine. It has all the trappings of proper pinball: score counter, score multiplier with timeout, standing targets, kickouts, pot bumpers, drop targets, and (of course) flippers and plunger. He started in 2013 and we saw an earlier version of the table back in 2014, but it has finally been completed. Of the South East London Meccano Club has put an impressive amount of ingenuity into making his pinball machine almost entirely out of Meccano parts.
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