This guy is building a pinball machine from scratch using a raspberry pi.
He is making very good progress.
He is a lot smarter than me, that's for sure.
Mark Baldridge - youtube channel:
http://www.youtube.com/user/markthomasb/videos
I am helping my son control a pinball machine for his Grade 9 Project. Going to be using an old Joker Poker playfield as the test bed 
Agreed, Mark Baldridge has made great progress using the RPi as a pinball controller. Of course the problem with all this stuff is eliminating any latencies.
Sorry, misspelling - Raspberry Pi http://www.raspberrypi.org/
Small ARM Single Board Computer
Quoted from gweempose:What the heck is a Rasberry Pi?
The Raspberry Pi is a credit card sized SBC with HDMI video, sound, Ethernet, GPIO and USB support....all for $35(ish)! Designed originally in the UK as a cheap way to get kids back in to programming real code but it has been adopted by electronic hobbysists for other cool projects.
For teh Joker POker project we will be using an I-PAC interface to detect switches, then we don't have to worry (hopefully) about any latency issues and missing switch closures. http://www.ultimarc.com/ipacve.html
Re-wiring the Joker Poker playfield switches should be pretty easy as all the switches are wired independently back to the diode strip boards. I think I am more excited about this project than my son 
Quoted from B9:How timely I received my Raspberry Pi in the may yesterday
How do you find it? I'm new to programing.
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