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Let's figure out the minimum parts to build a whitewood

By Aurich

9 years ago


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    #391 9 years ago
    Quoted from GLModular:

    That is pretty darn cool. If you were to make up appropriate bend joints in varying angles, you'd never have to bend a single piece of wire! That would save some serious time and effort. You could also build in the appropriate mounting for the "ramp made" switch at the same time.

    Bending the wire and ball guides was actually much easier than we anticipated when we did the first whitewood of Python's Pinball Circus. We had bought all sorts of metal bending equipment, and what ultimately worked the best was getting short 2 foot lengths of every PVC pipe size from Home Depot or Lowes and bending them by hand.

    Of course, what made this easier was that we had full sized, 1 scale drawings of what we were bending that we could:

    1) Bend
    2) Put item on 1 printed drawing
    3) Repeat

    We also toyed with using something like the old Spacewarp roller coaster kits and printing some clips to hold some wire, etc. There are already some marble rollercoaster kits on thingiverse that could probably be modified for this purpose too.

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    #526 9 years ago
    Quoted from jwilson:

    Thanks everyone. I'll look into getting shirts made.

    I'd be happy to run the shirts if you don't find someone by March. My silkscreen press is in storage until our new house is finished being printed.

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    #566 9 years ago
    Quoted from toyotaboy:

    CNC'd playfield with printing - SPookY pinball

    Just an FYI, Spooky can do more than playfields. We've used them for plastics, translights, playfields, ballguides and about to use them for several other things on Pinball Circus. Without Charlie and his team, we wouldn't be where we are with the project.

    Paul

    #588 9 years ago
    Quoted from BloodyCactus:

    I would probably delete everything off that page and just have some links to pyproc/linpinproc/mission framework/sdl/sfml.

    I'd tend to agree with this. the PROC forums have tons of information on using pyproc/libpinproc that it'd be best to just link to the active forums of the control systems that already exist rather than trying to recreate it.

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