What kind of sadistic asshole wants to build a pinball machine.
Oh.. right....
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Quoted from vid1900:They sold a ton of these things, and nobody burned their house down.
I agree. I believe that the boards can be made bullet proof enough to be safe. My intention with Spaceballs is that anyone can build one using the guide I'm putting together as I do mine. That includes the controller board. The board has some nice things like fault detection with the solenoid drivers and a pretty beastly switch matrix that can survive a hit from solenoid voltage. You would have to actually try very hard to burn up any part of this controller board, at least that's my intent. 
Quoted from rkahr:When this company sells their product, the customer gets the build instructions, the BOM and vendor source list, and access to support forums (or maybe the support forum just exists as threads here). The whole factory process (essentially collect stuff, rearrange/assemble, and ship) doesn't exist under this company's roof - it becomes the buyer's effort.
This is exactly what I am after with Spaceballs, without the selling bits.
I'm just going to give the entire design away, and anyone that wants to build it can. That's not saying that I won't ever sell them, just that the complete design and software will be given away for free for anyone that has the ambition to do it. I imagine that's only around a half dozen people.
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