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 …
Slingshots | Half Scale Pinball
Wednesday, February 09, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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Testing Last post I said I’d be working on the in/out-lanes next but I finally got all the parts in to run a full test on my slingshot assembly and just couldn’t wait. The video below demonstrates the assembly with a few different general …
Testing Inductive Probes | Half Scale Pinball
Saturday, February 05, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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Background One of the goals for my half-scale System Shock pinball machine is to include fully-functioning slingshots. For those unfamiliar, slingshots are the triangular kickers located just above the flippers on most pinball machines. The …
Half Scale Pinball
Saturday, January 29, 2022 in Half Scale Pinball
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Background Since 2015, I’ve been working to build a roughly half-scale pinball machine themed after the original System Shock. I got the idea from the various mini-pinball machines built on the Ben Heck Show [1] [2] and from having finished …