Hi everyone,

I'm not sure that I'm posting my post in the right section but I post a message on this forum in order to offer APC cards to those who might be interested. In the coming month I will order APC board from JLCPCB.

For myself, i would need two, one for a Data East Laser war that I want to bring back to life. I only have a full playfield, no card or case so the APC card would be perfect for this project.

The second, I would like to use it to create my own pinball machine. It might be complicated and challenging.

Of course the PCB are at the cost of manufacture with no fee. This could reduce costs and allow some of you to have these cards at a reasonable price.

I live in France on the border between Germany and Switzerland so I can send to these three countries with local shipping costs. Otherwise I can also in other European countries.

So if you are interested don't hesitate to contact me

Thank you

Hi Isochronic_Frost,

I'm not remanufacturing them. The board have been made by a forum member "AmokSolderer" . I'm juste ordering the board from the manufacturer JLCPCB by using the open source files share by "AmokSolderer".

Regarding the APC board:

It is intended for people who want to start programming pinball machine and learn about electronics. Also for people who want to expand the possibilities of their pinball machine (create new rules, add feature, improve gameplay,...). That means it's going to require some work to set up your game even if you don't want to change anything, but run the original rules with PinMame witch is support by the APC.

The APC is a freely programmable controller for Williams and Data East pinball machines. It uses an Arduino Due and contains all the circuitry required to run a Williams pinball machine from System 3 to System 11c (and the compatible Data East machines):

Display interface for all corresponding display types
24 Solenoid drivers
Lamp matrix drivers for 64 lamps
Switch matrix drivers for 64 switches + 8 non matrix switches
SD card interface (to store audio files, highscores and settings)
Audio amplifier with two channels (to play music and sound effects simultaneously / can be changed to single channel stereo)

In my case since i don't have any board for my DE Laser war, it will remplace all the card excepte the power supply. So it's cheaper.
For people having a broken CPU, it's a more affordable replacement and with more features.

You can also use this board to create your own pinball machine.

source: https://github.com/AmokSolderer/APC

According to my estimate the board will cost at JLCPCB between 20-25€ and with the Arduino and all the component that must be soldered by yourself the final cost will be less than 100€. It will depend on where your buy the transistor, Arduino, connector ....