Hi All,

I am pretty new on this forum, as most of the time on the other side of Atlantic ocean

I am the owner of a 1975 Gottlieb FastDraw pinball that I have almost fully restored. It is now playing like a charm on a clean and neat playfield !

As I am a "electronics geek" I wanted to add something to my pinball but without destroying anything into the original wirings.

Here is what I made : A Bluetooth Low Energy clock synchronized via Wifi with NTP and connected to my Android phone for tuning.

The clock directly moves the score reels to display date/time and rings the bell (chime)

It connects on the backglass side directly on the connectors. The pcb is hidden into the cabinet and protected by a nice wood cover specially designed by "french tech industry" !

Videos are here (sorry in french but easy to follow !) :
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full integration into the pinball :

JP
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Thank you !

I do like all this stuff and mainly the harbor lites which is quite original because no noise !
To be honnest I started pinball mania when I saw these clocks in Elektor last year. I immediately wanted to buy a few reels. But it was expensive.
I eneded by buying a full pinball !

And since this date, my idea was really to have something not spoiling the pinball !

JP

Right !

Cheese box --> boite à fromage in French !

I can change this and set up a 12/24 format option !

Easy to do !

But even hours chimes are a nightmare...

I wanted a chime tone for hour, 1/2h and 1/4h. theoritically easy because the xylo has 3 tones... but not enough IO ports left on my ESP32 microcontroller !