Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
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Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
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Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#2Do you have any plans of open-sourcing or releasing your work here? This stuff is awesome, it would be great to try and apply it to different eras of pinball machines as well.
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#3It just floors me that today you can order up a custom PCB for a few dollars if you are willing to wait a few weeks. What a world.
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#4It just floors me that today you can order up a custom PCB for a few dollars if you are willing to wait a few weeks. What a world.
JLPCB and a few others offer 2-4 day service as well. The scene exploded a couple years back and it keeps growing.
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#5Do you have any plans of open-sourcing or releasing your work here? This stuff is awesome, it would be great to try and apply it to different eras of pinball machines as well.
Yeah, definitely if people are interested. Let me clean up the repo a little bit first :)
It's probably hard to directly apply this to other machines, but the interposer board idea would make it easy to take the same hardware and use it on any MC6808-based machine.
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#6Do you have any plans of open-sourcing or releasing your work here? This stuff is awesome, it would be great to try and apply it to different eras of pinball machines as well.
Yeah, definitely if people are interested. Let me clean up the repo a little bit first :) It's probably hard to directly apply this to other machines, but the interposer board idea would make it easy to take the same hardware and use it on any MC6808-based machine.
I am a pinhead! Actually on my way to a tournament right now. So yaaas please more info on this : ). Is the. Openpinball framework involved in this?
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#7It just floors me that today you can order up a custom PCB for a few dollars if you are willing to wait a few weeks. What a world.
JLPCB and a few others offer 2-4 day service as well. The scene exploded a couple years back and it keeps growing.
I started off as an EE in college ~20 yrs ago before switching to CS. I did some circuit board design work (never fab) as part of my coursework, but haven't touched it since. I have some baseline familiarity. I think we used pSpice and Cadence, which (at the time) still had a lot of Win 3.1 era MFC UI elements. I'd like to jump back into it for hobby reasons. Any recommendations on modern low-budget software-tooling?
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
JLPCB and a few others offer 2-4 day service as well. The scene exploded a couple years back and it keeps growing.
I started off as an EE in college ~20 yrs ago before switching to CS. I did some circuit board design work (never fab) as part of my coursework, but haven't touched it since. I have some baseline familiarity. I think we used pSpice and Cadence, which (at the time) still had a lot of Win 3.1 era MFC UI elements. I'd like to jump back into it for hobby reasons. Any recommendations on modern low-budget software-tooling?
KiCad is excellent and open source. There's a recent post about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34769574
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
JLPCB and a few others offer 2-4 day service as well. The scene exploded a couple years back and it keeps growing.
I started off as an EE in college ~20 yrs ago before switching to CS. I did some circuit board design work (never fab) as part of my coursework, but haven't touched it since. I have some baseline familiarity. I think we used pSpice and Cadence, which (at the time) still had a lot of Win 3.1 era MFC UI elements. I'd like to jump back into it for hobby reasons. Any recommendations on modern low-budget software-tooling?
You can try KiCad.
Re: Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
JLPCB and a few others offer 2-4 day service as well. The scene exploded a couple years back and it keeps growing.
I started off as an EE in college ~20 yrs ago before switching to CS. I did some circuit board design work (never fab) as part of my coursework, but haven't touched it since. I have some baseline familiarity. I think we used pSpice and Cadence, which (at the time) still had a lot of Win 3.1 era MFC UI elements. I'd like to jump back into it for hobby reasons. Any recommendations on modern low-budget software-tooling?
I'm a tinkerer and software dev, so my use is very basic.
https://www.kicad.org/ is free and open-source It is mature and useful, has a vibrant active community, and is progressing at a healthy pace. It competes with the paid options, but might have rough edges comparatively speaking. I recommend starting here. I've only ever used this.
There is also Eagle PCB which is now an Autodesk product. It requires a Fusion360 subscription but I don't know if the free version qualifies. It's a professional tool.
Those are the only two I really hear about from the communities I lurk. But I know there are about a dozen or so currently that range from simple to professional.