Dungeon Studios Pinball Machine
    Custom HomeBrew PinBall Machine
    This pinball machine started out with me just designing and
    building the custom pop bumpers, I wanted to build this
    complex machining with tons of pop bumpers but since the
    cost of building a custom machine is way out of our reach
    I couldn't see this happening. I figured that I can make
    and sell the custom pop bumpers to finance the build of a
    pin ball machine. To get started, I needed to see just how
    a normal pop bumper is built, So I bought one and mounted
    it to a small piece of wood. Now I can figure out what
    parts I can reuse and what parts I we will have to make
    from scratch.
    My friend and I found a scrap wood
    crate that we dismantled to re use
    the wood. So we started building a
    full size table for the pop bumpers.
    We layered all four of the different
    pop bumpers out on the table and
    moved them around till we found a
    pattern that looked good. With the
    pop bumpers mounted the mock up
    started to look like a pinball
    machine.

    		Here are the makings of the
    moulds, I start off with card
    board and tape. Lots of tape.
    The thought is to set
    everything up ahead of time
    so that when it comes time
    to poor, you don't have any
    worries.
    I went ahead a purchased a
    Raspberry Pi mini computer for the
    Pinball machine. My plan is to use
    this for generating the sound
    effects and maybe some visuals for
    the LCD screen.

    Here is the Raspbery Pi
    that I will be using for
    sound and some video,
    It's available through my
    Amazon Affiliate link:


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    Audio Card Expansion Board for
    creating the sounds for the pinball
    machine.     		^
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    This 16 Channel Relay Module will
    be for controlling the mechanical
    functions of the game.
    I ran into some issues with
    my moulding material getting
    all lumpy and hard to work
    with. I think this one batch
    was (new old stock) since the
    other molds came out just fine.

    The custom pop bumpers consist of three main parts that
    custom, the rest of the parts are from a Balley's pop
    bumper.

    First we have the pop bumper Cap.
    The Cap's come in triangle, square and rectangle shapes.
    Next there is the Striker.
    The Strikers also come in triangle, square and rectangle
    shapes to match the Caps
    Then we have the Skirts.
    Those also come in the three shapes as well.

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