Close Encounters of a Third Kind with a Cobrapin pinball controller; oh my, here we go again.....
This table was done once before and working and running with a Raspberry Pi and arduino combination solution.
That solution provided me with a wealth of knowledge and experience in coding and understanding the principals of a working pinball machine.
It taught me how to code a switch matrix, build a lamp driver and conduct a symphony of different hardware peices to talk together and sync.
So why would I rip apart a working machine. Well for one thing, when I compare it against my just completed Phoenix conversion the difference shine thru quickly.
My Phoenix machine acts and behaves like a 2021 Factory Pinball machine with modern sound, virtual dmd & display, Service Menu, and other modern components. It can be easily updated and modernized with addon's and eye candy over time. Its easily able to have updates to sounds, music, videos, effects or re-theming or customizing of game rules or behaviors.
In a word the future looks brighter for this machine.
In this thread I will document this journey and share with you the good, the bad and the ugly.
Expect more pictures and youtube clips to document its progress.