Greetings!
I'm looking to start an ambitious project: The creation of my own (simple) Pinball machine.
This is purely a hobbyist endeavour that I thought would be a good way to branch out my knowledge. I'm an Electrical Engineer by day, but know little in creating mechanical assemblies. Thus, I'll primarily be looking at getting parts used on real machines, like entire flipper assemblies, and just making my own electronics to drive them.
To get started though, I really need to understand the technical details of a few things. For example, the voltages used to drive various coils and how you 'talk' to the DMD's that are commercially available. I don't intend to *completely* re-invent the wheel, but I'd make my own microprocessor board to run it all, solenoid drivers, lights, etc. As mentioned, I'd probably just buy a real DMD as it would be significantly cheaper/better than making my own.
Are there resources available that go into this kind of low level detail? Usually parts would have datasheets, but it looks like a lot of this stuff is pretty custom to pinball machines.
I am unfortunately unable to own a 'real' machine to poke around it myself.
Thank you for any help you can provide in pointing me towards resources, and apologies if I posted this in the wrong spot (I'm new here).
