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Quoted from jwilson:Almost every single pinhead I know did not grow up playing pinball - that includes guys like me in our 40s. We all came to it later.
You're probably right, but I started at 9 years old in Denver at Celebrity Lanes. I loved electronic stuff, mostly from my R/C interests and pinball was the coolest thing around.
Quoted from LTG:Basic stuff. Solder, use a meter, check continuity. And with so many resources to learn, even short videos on Youtube.
I bought my niece a cute little Sparkfun LED watch kit to build to learn something.
Her "helicopter" parents said they didn't want her working with a soldering iron, too dangerous. They gave the kit back.
She went back to her iPad to play candy crush. I also looked closely at that "Coddling..." book, it is true. Good thing we don't have kids.
Quoted from o-din:Wouldn't want to get anything gooey on those lovely hands, now would she?
She might not get pink eye that way. I got it a year ago in Vegas from some kid playing the Stern machines in NYNY.
Quoted from ThatOneDude:You should have started with non-soldering projects.
I tried to have a positive input to the child's future. That about does it for the energy I have for other people's kids. Parents would probably shoot down everything.
Good thing parents aren't accountable for their kids success. "We don't know what went wrong with little Suzie - we gave her everything!"
Indeed this kid has everything, spoiled & coddled. Sit them in front of their favorite DVD and go on about your business. Sad
Quoted from SantaEatsCheese:So... how many pinball machines are being made today?
My guess is 5,000 to 6,000 new machines per year. Not lower, maybe a bit higher.
Quoted from Frippertron:Which old school games sold more than Flash? I know Addams, I'm talking Ballyhoo and stuff like that.
Bally's "Eight Ball" sold 20,230 to "Flash"'s 19,505 according to IPDB. There may be others.
[ I'm just using the Banning spreadsheet I made ]
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