Speaker Panel | Half Scale Pinball
Monday, July 08, 2024 in Half Scale Pinball
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Sight and sound I’ve made a lot of small updates to the pinball machine since my last post but let me first introduce the new speaker panel I’ve designed. The bolts at the bottom won't be visible once the artwork is applied to the acrylic …
I made a game for Scream Jam 2023 | Consignment
Saturday, November 04, 2023 in Blog
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An old hobby It’s been over a decade since I last made a game solo (made in Flash CS5 if that’s any indication) and I haven’t used a proper game engine in years but with all the recent talk about Godot, it finally felt like the …
Building a Test Stand | Half Scale Pinball
Friday, March 17, 2023 in Half Scale Pinball
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On my way to a playable machine These past months, I’ve been working to get the lower-third of the machine in a playable state so I can finally playtest. Thankfully, I’m nearly done as all I have left is the redesign of the flipper mech. …
A fiberoptic DMD?! | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, December 28, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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…but why You, being a sane and reasonable individual, are probably wondering how I could possibly think it was a good idea to build a fiberoptic panel for my pinball machine’s DMD. Frankly, I don’t even have a great answer to that …
Replacement Score Camwheels
Monday, October 31, 2022 in Blog
How it all started About a year ago, Joe’s Classic Video Games uploaded a video showcasing a cracked Chicago Coin score camwheel and their workaround to fix it. They mentioned how these camwheels crack over time and that nobody makes …
Ball Trough | Half Scale Pinball
Sunday, August 07, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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It’s working! (finally) I know it’s been a while since my last post but I have a good reason… Borderlands 2 is a lot longer than I remembered. No but seriously I’ve actually made a lot good progress since my last post and now …
LOD-ing in OpenSCAD
Monday, April 11, 2022 in Blog
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The burden of complex assemblies in OpenSCAD Nothing quite kills a workflow like having to wait 3s for your rendering to update every time you want to pan the viewport around your work. OpenSCAD’s Boolean geometry functions are great for rapid …
Mapping the Ishimura
Thursday, March 03, 2022 in Blog
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What’s an Ishimura and why am I mapping it? A few years ago, I decided I wanted to build a 1:1 replica of the USG Ishimura, a fictional deep space mining ship from the Dead Space video game franchise, in another game called Space Engineers. For …
Ball Ejector Testing | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, February 23, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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Ball trough design On most pinball machines, a mechanism called the ball trough stores the balls not currently in play. Balls enter the trough through the playfield drain and are returned to play via a mechanism that ejects them back up to the …
Return Lane | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, February 16, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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The prototype I’ve completed a first draft of the return lane assembly; although, it’s not fully tested at this time. The problem is I can’t really test the lane without having the side wall and slingshot on either side to verify …