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Pinnovation! Self-leveling pin coming soon?!

By DeadFlip

4 years ago


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    #32 4 years ago
    Quoted from DeadFlip:

    So I had an idea.‬
    ‪Automated leg-levelers on a Pinball machine, hooked to accelerometer, to automatically level a pin for ya when you hit a button.‬
    ‪My buddy Joe Zenkus made a fricken prototype leg! ‬
    ‪#pinovation‬
    ‪Stay tuned for more!‬ (wow that link URL hahaha)
    https://clips.twitch.tv/IgnorantDifficultMomThunBeast

    Yeah, I agree that adjusting the playfield mounts is cheaper and likely more reliable than moving the leg levelers since you'd be moving a lot less weight and only have to move it a little bit as opposed to the legs where you have to move it a lot.

    But hey, let's get digital angle displays instead of bubble levels first. Baby steps.

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    #43 11 months ago
    Quoted from CrazyLevi:

    It’s a terrible idea.
    Leg levelers cost $1.25 each and do a perfectly acceptable job.

    Yeah, it's a solution in search of a problem. Once you're set up you generally don't touch the pin again, and it's not hard to set the machine to pitch and level that works.

    I would *much rather* see a digital tilt mechanism that is machine controlled and detects tilt on all axes. You could set base tilt sensitivity on the system menu AND you could have game modes where there's super-light almost-not-there tilt detection or super-tight don't-nudge-the-machine tilt detection. Could open up some new gameplay design opportunities. Especially for tournament play, it's time to say goodbye to the tilt bob. The mech I'm talking about (minus machine control) is dirt cheap and has been around for other applications for a long time. Time to come to pinball.

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