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I have had similar impulses over the years, and I am currently applying myself to learning the fundamentals of pinball mechanisms. It is so satisfying to wind ones own servo and use it for different purposes. There's a whole world of things to start building if you start with a generalized interest of first principles in a subject. These pneumatics have got me seriously wondering about building a pneumatic pinball ma…
I'm a chemical engineer and I've worked in some old plants. Before modern electronic control, everything was controlled by pneumatics. A control loop would literally be something like a pressure gauge connected to an air valve, so that when pressure increased the air flow would change and proportionately close off another valve upstream, and when it would decrease, the air would open the valve up. There were also com…
Especially when you consider that it is these kinds of forces at work, at a different scale and medium, anyway.
I think some kind of combined water/air pinball machine could be constructed, with the right balance in choice of materials for the ball, it could result in a playable pneumatic pinball mechanism.
It's just a matter of leverage. ;)