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Pinball Designers... Please listen!

By ASOA

6 years ago


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    #113 6 years ago
     
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    Quoted from Homepin:

    Yes, that 's actually the WMS boot sequence so I don't know what planet you are on?
    Modern microprocessors are sold by a few companies that provide generic software bundles so developers can use their products.
    Ben Heck used these, and was happy to promote that fact via his Farnell (sorry, Element 14) web channel.
    It would be best if some on here actually had some electronic knowledge rather than mouthing off about things that they "think".
    Homepin is using the same FREE software tools provided by these companies and everyone else is invited to use them too.

    Those companies did not create the assets you just shamelessly ripped off. Ben and crew did.

    The Pinheck System is under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Where is your contribution to the project?

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    Quoted from Homepin:

    As for the comments about fonts, come on Ben, you can't be serious.........

    Well MicroChip doesn't include the Atari 800 font with the IDE and who in there right mind would use the Propeller unless they where coping the PinHeck System. I see it right under the DMD cable. You even copied an older system with two SD cards due to bandwidth issues with the Assembly code. This was fixed in a later revision of the Assembly code.

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    Quoted from Homepin:

    It would be best if some on here actually had some electronic knowledge rather than mouthing off about things that they "think".
    Homepin is using the same FREE software tools provided by these companies and everyone else is invited to use them too.

    Your talking to the PinHeck System designer here bud.

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    Quoted from Homepin:

    It is all industry standard stuff - there are no secrets or surprises here at all.

    Lol ok. Yes using logic AND gates and a 556 timer to watch dog the solenoid mosfets is "standard". We designed so much wack into the PinHeck that its easy to spot

    Yes I see the 556 timer in there. There is no reason for it. A 555 timer would be fine but I had already designed the 556 for another project so I had the footprint and layout already designed. Why would YOU use the 556 timer and just throw away half the chip.

    For those that don't know a 556 timer is basically two 555 timer chips in a single IC chip. On the Pinheck we just don't use the other.

    Dude your caught.

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    Quoted from Homepin:

    We have no 555's or 556's in our machine - anywhere. Just more crap from "the opposition". They are not in that picture because they don't exist in our machine - not even in the prototypes. In fact, I don't even recall buying any 555/556 chips, certainly not for many years?

    In the protoboard picture. Driver board has 6 DIP-14 ICs which are going to be AND gates and a single DIP-16 which will be the 556. Even has the Watchdog LED and large 100uF cap for the ~1 second RC circuit.

    For reference the pinheck has 6 AND gate ICS

    Oh and you might not remember 556 but the TI part number CD74HC123 which is a 556 timer.

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    Quoted from jwilson:

    Isn't PinHeck a massive dead end in terms of future expansion? I mean, even Spooky did a newer revision.

    What do you mean. RZ uses PinHeck REV7D. We have a REV8 EOTL in the works for Bible Adventures Part 1.

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