I sat down and made a wire form in the shape of a Star Trek insignia. That then led to designing a ball ( left rail / right rail) mechanism that alternates after each ball as a vertical upkicker is used to load the ball at the top of the insignia.
I have a shooting white wood that I will post later in the build. I got a donor machine today for the boards, cabinet and mechs. It will take a bit of time as I have a young son and he is the play tester. (He’s 5).
Star Trek Discovery has a huge amount of story lines over the two seasons that are great for mission style modes. Here is my mode list a work in progress:

Torch Bearer
Klingon war
Michael
Alternate universe
Lorca battle
Spore drive
Pike
Control
Red Angel

Hopefully this might be interesting for others. Any Proc tips
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Well its official. I killed a xtreme machine today. Man is that a boring game with horrendous call outs.

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Keeping the main mech and just roughed out a altered ball catch and return as the vuk location is being moved to the back and feed the wireforms I made. Mounting a discovery ship on top of rotating mech. This is really interesting to figure out. So far its going slow because of time I can spare, but got alot figured out today. Not using the xtreme playfield, just using it to hammer out the shape needed.

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Got the 3d printer started up and have bumper caps printed out. More to come. Ender pro 3. Machine is very good and priced very well for what it can do.

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I redid the left corner section as I was not happy with the way it was. I built a mini playfield, built wire forms in the box frame that when you shoot the left ramp the ball goes around the box and feeds back to upper flipper. The upper flipper has two newton ball shots. The upper has a ball catch that must be hit to release it back to lower newton. Theres also two stand ups on inside of them and theres going to be a kick out plate in center. I will add more pictures and details as it goes. Very fun.

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That playfield has a switch in back middle corner. The ball comes back and feeds the upper flipper well. Theres 5 targets for that flipper to hit, so I racked my brain to come up with this.

Thanks for the interest!. One of the manufacturers should consider going after discovery for themselves and making another Star Trek machine. Theres a good amount of material in the two seasons that aired.

I really enjoyed the first two seasons. I was originally going to make a Wrath of Kahn machine. Ricardo Montalban version. I stumbled into Discovery late and watched the whole 2 seasons. Way more story and it was really interesting to me and enjoyable. The girl from walking dead is a really good character and actress. Star trek Picard ruined my next gen machine. Every time I look at back glass I now see Picard the Android. Seriously wtf!

Newton ball mech. Works well and will be good alternating shots from upper flipper top to bottom. The center target is a kickback plate assembly that will fire the ball right back at flipper. The artwork will be a top down view of a ship. Thinking newton balls will be laser fire and kickback photon torpedo. Still planning / programming all this out.

Sarcastic words read to literal. I was just beating up the captains now an android storyline. My wife loves Picard and she was like he died and became an android? Yup. Thats where they went with it. I only meant it as a joke towards that storyline.
She loves Picard and I am a Kirk guy (Shatner). So I like to get her riled up when I get the chance.

Trying to rough out artwork on my lunch breaks. Looking to layer Michael standing on broken starship during her talk with Spock as they figured out time jumps is where I am at mentally. The center hole shot for ramps will have the beat the game shot where she goes through time holes. The back panel at end of playfield will have artwork of that jump. That scene of her getting pulled through time was visually amazing and thats my end game goal point. Forgive the pencil work. Just illustrating this whole process start to finish. Need to do better scale on broken ship section and get Michael on it where it looks good.

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Printed black and white pictures over constant drawing on wood. Primitive photo shop.

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Mounting all mechs and wiring today. Should have flipping video by sunday. I also have a artist hired to paint playfield and cabinet. This is the white wood. I picked up baltic birch 9ply wood from a lumber supply in Plainfield NJ, so I will beat the hell out of whitewood and make all the tweaks and fixes before I cut and have the other ready for painting.

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Progressing nicely. The artist and her artwork will not disappoint. She has paintings of aircrafts that are stunning. The ships will look amazing. Michael will be on playfield and on cabinet as well.

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I am not doing inserts on this playfield. They will be on final one. Doing this by hand. I will illustrate the layout of inserts when I get there. This is fun. If you got a theme and desire go for it.

Its alive! Still tweaking switches, but it is alive!

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Wood screws not good enough for vuk. Had to drill out and install studs. Otherwise it shoots fine and I improved the left ramp with a metal flap and I relocated switch to front of that ramp as it was more reliable and does not impede ball like it did in frame box. Proc board will replace strikers. I have to program everything and that will take the most time. Running strikers board I figured I could get the playfield done and fine tuned then figure out lights, inserts and rules. I do not know if I can do lcd with this combo proc and stern drivers. Hopefully I can.

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The plastic will be the virtual screen in front of Michael. We are going to paint Michael reaching out to that panel. The plastic will have that look of her screens. Looking forward to that image mixed with the image of her on playfield. The drawing shows what were aiming for. Disregard the ships, I prefer the other Klingon ship over this one.

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Got hung up with makeshift ball catch that feeds vuk. I am just bypassing 3d print and going to make a wireform to catch and feed vuk. Way more forgiving and easier to adjust. I wasted half a day tweaking that plastic mock up. I am better with welding rods.

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The Enterprise needs to be on the playfield. I like the forward tilted view on it. I am thinking by left middle target having red angel as another shot.

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Looking for input on either clear coating the playfield or using a playfield protector? I have not seen or played a machine with protector on it. This is a one off artist playfield, so i am curious about the protector route? Any pros or cons? It will be easy to install as playfield would be empty after painting.

Welded up ball catch for rear vuk.

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Plays. I have to adjust a few things, but its up and running. Will post video once its good for video.

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The upper left rotating mech and 4 bank drop are from striker. I added the looping ramp to it only. The machine is currently playing striker xtreme with the stern board. Next step is going to be Proc board and programming code. That will take the longest. But, I can play it as is and fine tune it. The right spinner is great and my favorite shot on it so far.

I did add the 4 ball lock and catch assembly to the right wireform. That too is from striker. I will 3d print something to cover it. Original has stadium. Unless I can figure out a star trek stadium shape that can make sense with artwork I will have to make something for it. It works, but the membrane switch has bad traces on 2 sensors. I am going to try rear defogger repair kit as it does same thing as circuit paint. My welding is hit or miss. I really took my time on the wireforms they look better, but not perfect either. And “I will gut you for your insolence” Zitt!!!

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Rear defogger kit repair on membrane traces. I could not find my circuit pen, so autoparts kit fixed it.

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Machine playing showing mechs and shots with phone hanging in my shirt wedged to my neck. You can see a good amount of what I am going for.

Pinball life has a new one for $100. I will go that way if this one craps out. So far its working ok. Thanks for the tip. Gameplay video is up too!

Starting to sand down cabinet as it is going to artist next week for painting.First I killed a strikers playfield now the hideous cabinet art!

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Primed and sanded. Now I get to take apart the playfield so I can use it as template on holes for new one. I have to figure out where I am putting inserts and cut the playfield completely before I give it to artist to paint. It would be crazy to have her paint it and the cut out inserts after shes done. So, this is where I am at today. Happy with progress, but very time consuming.

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A version of this is going on backbox sides. We are still working on cabinet layouts.

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Thanks! I bought a cosmic carnival machine just to see the proc system and how it operated (we do like the machine) as part of this project. That convinced me is was doable. A rotating mech was one of the things I wanted on a playfield and it had to be a whitestar or sam system. It really came down to finding a striker xtreme or a high roller casino. I am really happy I found a good striker machine. The 4 bank drop targets are way better then the roulette wheel assy, so it just worked better. I do appreciate the comments. This is really fun so far. Pinside is the perfect way to log the whole project as it goes.

3d printing Klingon ship. 18 hours!

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Paint is next. Little stringy in spots have to sand down. 18 hours 53 minutes. Oofa!
(Sponge bob reference to all the parents out there)

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Right side cabinet is asteroid field with Michael (I can’t draw faces) with Shenzhou in background. Left side hard to illustrate with pencil. Discovery, red angel and porthole. Working on coinbox...

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Thanks Eightballtexas. I am glad this is interesting to other people. I am posting everything as it goes for a log of the build and for anyone thinking about making a machine for themselves to see what is involved.

3d printing Spocks shuttlecraft was going great and I was very happy with the detail. When you trip over the power plug and it trys to restart printing it went to hell! Trying again tomorrow.

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3d printer is giving me alot of trouble sticking to base pad today. So I gave up and went back and filled playfield spots with bad cuts and cut out 75 percent of holes. I have to take apart white wood for the remaining cuts, but it is going well. Got some good cutting tips on ask for help topic. Thanks to all that replied.

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I am stuck on artist timetable which is fine, so what do I do in waiting? The only thing that makes sense. Killing another striker xtreme machine for another table creation. Just prepping this cabinet to kill time. The wiring harness will be the same as my discovery machine so it will be easier to map out another game that shares dna. I wont start on that until I am done with discovery. I did learn maybe design a playfield prior to having a wireform. It handcuffed a chunk of thoughts. I really like the wireform design, but next one playfield first.

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Artist sent me this to approve. She gets my direction and style I am shooting for. These are mock up photos based off my drawings that shes going for. “Hit it!!”

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Thanks Eightballtexas! I am still stuck on coin door. It has to make sense. Not alot of room, so strugling on it. Discovery lettering and some type of artwork.

I mentioned I was looking for an artist to a coworker and he directed me to this one. She is related to his girlfriend. He showed me her artwork online and I was impressed with her work so I hired her.

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I saw this plane she did and I was sold.

She does murals, but Texas might be too far! She is a very nice local artist in central New Jersey. I did ask her if it was ok to promote her business and she said yes. I will share that information when the time is right. I will bring the machine to Allentown pinfest once it is completed. I want the cabinet and playfield done before I sit down and tackle the programming of proc. I have alot of ideas and I have to figure out how to implement them.

I will ask. Redid that left ramp again. Got sheets of plexi, cutters, welding gloves and a heat gun to form out a better ramp. It works pretty good. Just like bending sheet metal.

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The ball would get stuck on other ramp. This has a wall now and it is way smoother and easier to go up then before.

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I was not going to do inserts on whitewood, but I got instructions on how to do it from a help post and I figured it was smart to practice on this over the final one. The forstner bits rule! I did the two steps first 1 inch then the 7/8 step below.

The inserts create a ring effect off plexi arch. Very cool, I have several colors and I am trying to pick one over the rest. The clear starburst looks great.

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Thanks! I was hoping it would look like Michaels virtual panel. This is alot of fun!

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I might rearrange colors, but I cut these out this morning. I was not attempting arrow inserts with the electronics and wiring still on playfield. So everything is circle inserts for this one. It will help me with programming lights.

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Awesome! I got a teaser photo of backbox today.

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Left side painting in progress. She is doing a great job!

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Finished left side. Lighting effects from portholes and lights look great. Still strugling on a design for coin door area.

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Coin door sketch. Klingon on left star trek on right and a klingon lettered message on bottom. If you can read this without help you are gifted!

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Really thought of that idea of solid front with no coin door. I would have to come up with something besides artwork. This spiderman has no coin door and I cant explain it maybe its just me, but it just changes the look of machine. If something hits me that makes sense I would change the appearance of the coin door with metal work maybe? My friend has a plasma cutting table, so I have access to that tool if I get any ideas. Thanks for the suggestions.

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I am yet again going to change the left ramp assemby. The wireform just looked out of place. The best I can do is shape out a plastic box with plexiglass. The ball goes around without issue and I also moved the angle of entrance just a few milimeters to improve the flow. Still working on it, but this is far better then what I had done previously. I wish I did this first.

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Thanks Apinjunkie, appreciate feed back on the idea. You and Zitt have same thoughts. The clear plexi does look better then the wood and wireform I made. I think the clear pops is a go! All this plexi with nothing on it was just going to be template for making others and puting artwork on them. The further I go into it I think leaving them clear might look diferent and work well.

I will be removing the white pvc pipe. I just wanted to see how the plexi body would handle the ball. I will cut and form more plexi to relplace it. If I had access to vacuum forming equipment I would make the whole thing one piece including the ramp. The ball goes way better on plexi over the bent wireform. I really should have thought of the plexi and heat gun route first. Way easier to figure out and make in the end. And looks way better, more like a pinball assembly.

You ever just look at something and go wtf! I had left the playfield up and I had taken the metal mess of a ball catch out. It freaking dawned on me. Turn the vuk 90 degrees to the left and the ball travel would be easier more direct path. I used half of stock catch. Cut and molded a guide to the vuk. What a difference and what a dummy for working out a bend to something that doesnt need to bend. Duh!!! Now the ball catch is back to plexiglass and Zitt can no longer mock that assembly. Learning alot of why or what would you make that for in this. Still fun!

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Hard to see but I cut a strip of plexi and lined the box. The ball goes around the loop great now. I have to tweak the ramp connection to box. I have it atatched on top and I shaved the edges down, but the ball gets hung up when the ball bounces off the wall and comes back down to ramp.

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I wish! And thanks Nevadanutjob! Jersey Jack should go after this theme. I would buy it sight unseen. I will have to make this ramp box out of one piece of plexi, for the final playfield. This is patchwork but it works on the rampbox assembly.

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I bought a set of clear bumper caps to see if I liked them. The printed cap is solid white plastic and doesn’t look well lit, these clear caps go with the whole clear plastic direction. Zitt I will be looking for clear bumper parts soon.

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Caps are stern ones. Nascar has one clear cap so I bought 3. Drop targets would be great addition. I will pop one out and measure everything and we can see. Thanks for showing that option.

Eightballtexas pushed an idea about eliminating the coin door. We came up with a very cool unique idea to do just that. We just hashed out the concept and I really think it will be amazing to see if we can pull off whats in our head. Thank you sir! You sparked the idea and we are designing it this week. I will post a picture once it is completed, but only when its ready. In progress or what were doing would spoil it. Really cool concept. So thank you sir!

Glued all inserts. Went with clear starburst. I can change bulb colors easier than inserts so I went that way. Added some gi lighting. Added another spinner! You cant have too many spinners! The lights are routed and installed. I have to map them out and program them for proc once I start that process. Progress!

Is it bad when you are in your garage making pinball parts and the police tackle a heroin dealer breaking your fence in the process? Or is that a good luck sign?

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I was making this ball lock assembly when the police were pilled on the runner.

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Thanks J85M. The bane of this machine is that upper left ramp. Redo number too many. I had issues with the ball getting stuck on the lips. I was not thinking when I made the plastic version. It needs to be all one piece. I also made a one piece wall for it. I am praying this is the last time I tackle the ramp. The plate worked, but altered the balls velocity too much. Now its all one piece. Lesson learned on ramps.

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I got a shot of right side tonight. Cabinet is almost done. I am impressed by her work and she is doing exactly what we were going for. I sent her youtube clips to help get the idea of style. Perfect.

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Working on micro leds on Discovery and space dock. Still need to drill out engines. These micro leds look very good.

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I moved the post over so the lower captive ball can be hit by a glancing shot off left flipper. Adds another shot. I think this will be better and it can be hit by upper flipper and now if you get a good shot off left it is enough to move ball to upper lock on ball lock assy. I will fill the hole left behind at some point.

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Thank you Apinjunkie. Appreciate the comments. Discovery is all prepped for install. The micro leds are amazing!

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Thank you Zahner! I have to take out rotating mech and make the hole larger for the wiring or make another hole. There is one for the switch on post. But, it is not big enough for the switch and led wiring. I paid the artist today and I looked at the cabinet. It is better in person. Michaels face is excelent. Shes finishing up the front and said I can pick it up in a few days. I am trying to figure out lighting for the lower arch inserts. The lights that create the reflected ring affect are very bright and hit me in the face. I am 6”6 so the viewing angle gets me right in the eyes. So that is a work in progress. Thinking tinting, but not sure yet. As of now regular leds because of that. The game shoots very well and I am very happy with it. It is a quick game. Longest I have gone is about fifteen minutes on 3 balls. It is running xtreme rules so its just madness. Once I get the proc board I am going to start the programming. I want all the mechanics ironed out prior. I am also keeping this white wood to beat on. I have a complete second xtreme for parts that will enable me to make another machine. I think it will be great to have my first machines prototype along side a finished version. I can beat the hell out of the proto type and improve the code as it goes.

I have a smaller clear dome one. I just have to make the switch. I agree 100 percent. I did not have that when I started out.

Apinjunkie, I am open to solving the issue in anyway, so thanks for the tip. I will try several ways to see. My height is a pain in the ass.

Cabinet is now done. Picking it up tonight. I really struggled on front panel. If you followed the two seasons maybe you understand why I chose the side art. The right side represents Michaels starting the war with the Klingons in that exchange. The left side is Michael leading the Discovery into a time jump to save the universe from control. (Spoilers). I really enjoyed her story of turning from a convicted starfleet traitor aboard a starship to turn into someone saving all life in the galaxy. Her intensions of betrayal were something I really understood. She was trying to save everyone by her actions of wanting to fire first on the Kingons to prevent a war from starting. The front panel in Klingon has the phrase “we come in peace” on it with starfleet on one side and klingon on the other. That represents the start of the war between the two sides. And how someones actions or statements can have honorable intensions only to be a turning point of chaos or conflict. Art is very subjective, but this is what I felt watching the series and that is what I tried to sketch out.

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Cabinet!

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I am forced to eliminate the headbox folding brackets as I did not think to outline or show where they or the legs would be on cabinet. All my fault, so lesson learned. The bracket on right side covers too much of ship and just kills it. The front legs cover the artwork and at some point I will have it redone. The headbox is now bolted and latched into place. The speaker panel and backglass are only there until I figure out what size monitor I use. I like Sterns backglass to monitor sizing and will follow that model. I put all the hardware on it this morning. Now I have to finish cutting out playfield and artwork for that.

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Thanks. She nailed it. She took my drawings and brought them to life way better then I expected. I just finished drilling out all the inserts. Still stuck on playfield art. I was going to have Michael under the arch, but now I think I am going with the player being Michael looking down at the arch.

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Printing Leland’s ship. Going to swap it out for the Klingon ship. 12 hours!

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One side sagged a hair and caused seam. I will call it battle damage?. Cutting out support structures on model this small and engines fall off. I hate and love this printer at same time. Thinking eaglemoss route. This is just frustrating. Might try bigger size.

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Sketching out ideas on paper today. I have ideas and the only way I will get anywhere with them is sitting down and drawing them out. I am not a fan of photo shopping.

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