Quoted from MrBigg:

I'm completely petrified of 3D printers but would love to try before I buy kind of thing. I can make nearly anything now, but it would be fun to play with. Having welders, plasma cutter, every saw known to man, and planers, routers, etc is a nice plus. I own a custom guitar shop, (Bigg Deak Customs), so intricate wood things is pretty normal for me.
My HB is pretty far along now, cabinet is done, playfield top is really close, but the wiring is a ways off. Most of cabinet wiring is complete, but playfield just got started.
I did several small things I've not seen others do yet on lighting, and i put an Mp3 player/jukebox mod into my cabinet for when I'm not playing, and just want music.
Next playfield will be carbon fiber/epoxy which I think will be really cool with the depth and such.
This thread is already very cool, and glad I found it. I love sharing ideas, and always love advice from multiple points of view.

Quoted from Octomodz:

In cura, you’ll slice a file which will create a gcode file from the stl file you load. Once you slice, you have to export that gcode to your sd card

Quoted from TreyBo69:

Are those new PBL mechs? I find sometimes I need to bend them a bit by hand to get them the way I want them, which may be a bit of why you're getting airballs. That and the playfield being pitched should help a lot.

Quoted from MrBigg:

OK I just got it to finally print. So one last issue, even after the leveling trick, the pre heat trick, etc, my filament will not stay stuck to the bed. I saw a gluestick tri k, but what do you all suggest?

Quoted from MrBigg:

My interview on the pinball network homebrew channel.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-pinball-network/id1497645647?i=1000608607795

Quoted from leeoneil:

Aoutch, take a break ! Good luck for the work, it's always horrible to do some task twice.
The crazy thing i'm still amazed in these projects, it's the time we need.
Every step takes hours... It's crazy !
I just prepare some electric wires for the Cobra, and.. 3 hours later i am still on it !
Maybe trained builder are going faster but for me it's astonishing the time it take me to do simples things !
Not have anything to do with the soldering problem, i'mcurrently working on the lights, and I have done a quick visual of my playfield with all the numbers for my lights.
Now I can quickly have a look at it when i'm working with MPF shows.
It's just here as an idea.
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Quoted from Wolfmarsh:

Been getting a lot of base wiring done on the next game.
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Quoted from BrianMadden:

I have a favor to ask everyone in this thread.
I'm the maintainer of MPF and related projects (MPF-MC, MPF Monitor, MPF Docs). I still spend many hours a week on it (all unpaid volunteer), literally right now working on updates for MPF 0.57 which will allow it to run on versions of Python newer than 3.9.) jabdoa and I alone wrote about 98% of MPF over many thousands of hours over the past 9 years. We also wrote about 95% of the documentation. (I'm the guy who spent a week of full time work moving the docs to the new platform last month. for example.)
We don't ask for much in return. We don't need credit. We don't need money. We don't need glory. You will not find our names in IPDB or the Pinball HOF.
What we need, and what we plead and beg for, is your help with documentation!
When I originally envisioned MPF, (Fun nostalgic link to the Pinside announcement post from 9 years ago), I thought it would follow the arc of typical open source projects where we'd get lots of contributors and people working on it. That hasn't really happened (though there are a few other people who've written a lot of code for it, Q-Dog and avanwinkle get shout outs). In hindsight I think that's because MPF is geared for "non coders", so by definition the user base doesn't know Python or software engineering, and anyone who both loves writing software and making pinball is probably going to write their own code from scratch and not use MPF. So that's fine. (Though we'd love more help if you are a Python and pinball guru!)
But the bar for writing the documentation is way lower. So, for real, any time you're on the MPF docs site and you figure something out that isn't documented, or you think something could be explained better, or something is confusing, or you just see a typo, I'm begging you, PLEASE click the edit button on the page and add to or fix the page. The changes you make go into a queue and be approved, so there is no chance of breaking anything!
If you don't know where to start or you don't want to deal with it, you can email me the page you want to change ([email protected]) and I'll make the change. (But really it's easy, you can learn!) I put some instructions together which are linked from the bottom of every page on the site. If that's not enough, I can make a video, or walkthrough.. whatever it takes!
This is all we ask. By using MPF, you get access to tens of thousands of hours of work for free. Openhub estimates (using the COCOMO method) the MPF project as worth $2.7m! (Sure we can nit-pick the specifics but the point remains it has been a lot of work!)
We love seeing the hundreds of machines created, and reading through the pages and pages of posts talking about how helpful MPF is. It's immensely satisfying that we actually helped bring more pinball into the world! I have to pinch myself when I walk into Add-a-Ball (down the street from me in Seattle) and see STIrby's Eight Ball Beyond in revenue service on location, knowing that's running MPF!
Awesome, amazing, love it all!!!
All we ask is your help to give back to the community and help everyone by sharing what you learned in the docs. So all these tips and tricks and advice (which you all know better than me since I personally have never actually made a game with MPF), please help get this into the docs!
Thanks, and happing pinball making!!!
Brian

Quoted from MrBigg:

I met Octomodz in the flesh at SFGE, so anyone who was wondering if he was actually real, I can confirm, and he is as nice, and humble in person as he is on here.
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Quoted from RatShack:

You can buy custom cut tempered glass on Amazon?

Quoted from Billygrippo:

Custom mitered joints by scratch. Who needs to buy a cabinet…
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Quoted from Billygrippo:

It wasn’t a dig. Just goofin. I’ve never built a cabinet in my life till now.

Quoted from cwg29:

Thanks for the pro tip. I did not know about this and it really does improve the finish. Not quite finished with my playfield but I already see the difference. Not as much clear and wet sanding needed.
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Quoted from MrBigg:

So an update on the BDC pin, I spent about an hour yesterday tracing wires, checking diodes, caps, etc. Found a bad cap, and a near shorted coil on the right mini flipper. Changed both, and it appears all is working correctly now. I put the glass back in, and played a few games, and everything worked as ot should. Huge sigh of relief finally. Thanks for all the suggestions, and help guys, I really appreciate it.
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