Lovely!

I’ll join as well :)

my name: “Alexander van Ee”

TX follows

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A friend of mine knows all about pinball machines. He’s the reason i have such an awesome machine.

At his home he has all sorts of pinball machines. The oldest ones not even having digital displays, and the newest ones having a full sized 19" rack-server and an LCD TV as a display.

I asked someone who helps him maintain the machines about the credit-switch as seen on the photo’s on my blog. Apparently all pinball machines use the same mechanism. From the very old ones to the very newest ($10,000 2014 models). The coin checking mechanism is simply a module that goes before the credit-switch, a transistor-relay approach should be fine.

-alex

Yay! Got it working :)

I am going to use this at a job interview on Monday. It covers a lot of things they need me for:

http://balgehacked.wordpress.com/2014/07/18/10-cryptocurrency-pinball-mod/

All in all a $10 mod to the pinball machine.

@tmuir12, I am looking forward to your version. The LCD screen will be a must have i guess. If there is anything i can help you with, please drop me a line ;)

Happy hacking!

AWESOME!

I pretty much wanted to do the same for a year or so, never got to it till about a week ago.

As hacking is kinda my thing, i bought a second hand network router for about $4 and started messing around with it.

Simply put, i started at the other half of your project.

I have a 1994 Corvette pinball machine in mint condition in my living room.

I hacked the router to be a very basic DHCP enbaled linux box with SSH management. I used the GPIO to enable the “WiFi” LED. This will trigger the relay.

A relay is definately the way to go as the original “coin taster” drops a coin on a switch. The switch has two nice big exposed soldering points on the two wires. So my plan was to use some non-destructive clip-on system from the other side of the relay.

Current status:

• Router rooted and configured

• FTC balance script untested (bash script using external API)

• WiFi LED output soldered to a long wire.

• Router nicely back in it’s casing.

• Pinball machine configured (I used the old Dutch currency Gulden. This results in the currency “F” on the screen, 1F, 2F, 10F, etc.)

Todo:

• Solder a small relay on a PCB connected to “coin taster” and hacked router.

• Test bash script.

• Find a way to display a “working/not-working” LED under the glass. (i have blinking startup LED i can manually trigger on the router as well)

My pinball payment conversion would be a lot less fancy but only cost me about $5

I love hacking around with hardware. Making it do wonderfull things it was never intended for :)

-alex

Hello all,

Have spoken to Chriss at a Bitcoin meeting in Amsterdam back in 2013. Had a great talk.

Silently wandering around in the FTC community for a while now…

Very eager to respond to a FTC payable pinball machine project, so i made a user account.

As an early bird to BTC, i really like the FTC community today for still being kind and respectfull.

Have fun!

-Alex