Looks cool! Do you plan on manufacturing these for sale?

Color puking to the extreme!

Not my thing, but does look better then washing the whole playfield out in one color. Could be a great mod for those who like splashing color around the field.

Yep same here, not my thing but looks like a cool product for those that enjoy this type of thing. All I ask is that you please don't try to ram them down everyone's throat with ads on inside, facebook, twitch, twitter, etc. If you do that I promise you have a far greater chance to win my business if the time comes I want to light a game up than that other company that is out there.

Interesting, make a diffuser so the ramps don’t look like candy canes from the LED reflections. Competition is a good thing.

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Wow, you've obviously put a lot of work into these. Curious how you are making the switch trigger work since these are matrixed switches. Great job.

Nice job! Definitely the way "interactive lighting" should be for those who want it. The board design and software integration look top notch. Absolutely love it, and my hats off

Curious how you're dealing with Pin Stadium's "patent" (though I'm doubtful that they were ever able to get a grant given that I can think of 3 different forms of prior art that would have come up during any reasonable search).

I figured it would take something like that, very impressive work.

Pssh, come on, Tommy! Think of all that sweet sweet podcasting revenue you're missing out on

(Agreed completely). Oddly enough not seeing an ad at the bottom of this post!

Hi guys. I've known Noddy for 15+ years, and I happily volunteered to test this project. I bought two early prototype sets back in July, one for me and one for another pinball buddy (@btrip). I get together with btrip every Thursday night to hang out, play pinball, work on mods and projects, etc. We always take turns hosting, so I feel as though I can speak to the Pin-Hylites on his DE Jurassic Park and AFMr, as well as on my own F14, Pin-bot, and LAH.

First, I'd like to say that these things are such a game changer that whichever pinball they are installed in, it's the only one anybody is going to want to play. This has been my experience week after week of Thursday nights, and I am not kidding and not exaggerating at all. Once you take this thing off of pinball A and move it over to pinball B, pinball A just looks sad and pathetic. It's crazy how much of a difference we are talking.

Next, I want to just emphasize how configurable these things are. I am 48 years old and had LASIK back in the early 2000's. I hate kids on my lawn, get halos driving at night, and when it comes to pinball, I don't like a lot of bright light. But since these are RGBW, you can turn them down to where they fill in the light "just enough." I *maybe* run mine at 5%-10% brightness at the most, and it's still an incredible game changer.

One other thing, and this one is more of a disclaimer. This is the kind of project that you really have to see in person to fully appreciate it. It does photograph very well, but those photos are not always 100% color-accurate. For instance, when doing photos and videos of @btrip's AFMr, the photos look absolutely incredible, and it also looks absolutely incredible in person. But it doesn't look the SAME.

Example 1: Using green on both sides each time the upper left flasher is hit. This looks identical in game and in the pics.
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Example 2: Using full brightness when the ship strobes. This looks exactly the same in person as in the photos (or at least it did when I was able to keep my eyes open).
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Last Example: The normal in-game GI in AFMr. Ummmm.... the Pin-Hylites look absolutely stunning in person. But they DO NOT look predominantly purple.
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I just wanted to point that out. It seems like some colors show up in the photos that do not show up in in real life. I think that is just the nature of the beast with lighting like this. If Noddy decides to sell them, you'll just have to try them for yourselves!

More pics and videos soon.
Dan

Put me down for a set if you decide to sell them, they look great!

Dan

Couple more videos that I took during my testing. I always think that the "before and after" videos are the coolest.

Pin-bot

F14

I consider myself extremely fortunate to be a tester for these. I knew from first hint about them that they would be amazing and they exceeded all of my expectations.

I agree with Curbfeeler that pictures and videos don't really do these justice, but I created some before and after videos to give a sense of what is possible.

I installed them on my AFMRSE. Installing is an absolute cinch and took all of 20-30 minutes. Absolutely NO permanent modifications to your machine are required, completely reversible, and NO STICKY STRIP!

Once installed, I simply connected to the PinHylite's built in WiFi, navigated to the webapp, and what then proceeded was absolutely awesome. Tweaking the various colors and seeing how the playfield responded was stunning.

For the basic GI, I was able to dial in this almost ultra violet color that really makes the UV reactive parts of the playfield pop. Immediately the game looked more amazing than it already did (thanks CGC!). I was then able to fine tune in some green highlights on the saucers which look fantastic.

But that was just the beginning of this adventure. I hadn't even scratched the surface of what these things could do.

I always loved strobe multiball on AFM, but it always felt kind of weak. These provided the solution. I placed one of the light sensors in the strobe light "chamber", and was able to run the sensor wire through to the back practically undetected. I set up a trigger in the app for when the strobe goes off, the PinHylites will strobe as well! Not even a ziptie was needed, although some were supplied.

Next, curbfeeler noticed that the saucer above the SOL hole does some interesting things throughout the game, so he suggested that a light sensor go there as well. We set this trigger up to have the PinHylites do a green colored effect where the LEDs chase up the field whenever that saucer lights. This led to some interesting lightning effects during the start of Martian Multiball, SOL kickout, and when a saucer is destroyed.

Still not enough though. There's also a sensor that can hook to switches, so of course we had to add a green sparkle effect whenever a ball is waiting to be launched.

That same sensor can be used, believe it or not, on motors. So I hooked one up to the shield up/down motor and set the effect to alternate green left and right. This combined with the saucer sensor causes quite an amazing light show when a saucer is destroyed.

Here is what everything looks like all together during Total Annihilation.

And this is all just one machine. Imagine what these can do to other machines. The possibilities are truly endless.

Thank you so much to nodyeliab and Curbfeeler for everything. You guys are the best.

I’m getting ready to place an order for about 20 light sets from one of your biggest competitors! I may have an alternative here! Looking forward to mounting options and pricing.

its because this thread isn't linked to a machine, as soon as that happens you'll see them, so dont add a machine

Very interesting and well done. If priced right I suspect you’ll sell a ton of these. Looking to be a customer.

Ghastly.
Glws.

CERIOSULY?
They got a "patent" for led strips?
Please tell me; this is a FUD tactic ... I doubt that patent would even make it to court.

They have pulled it before when someone offered a cheap version, which was being supplied well before they came to market.

You can search the US Patent database. I did, found nothing.....

What ever happened with these @nodyeliab? Curbfeeler ?