PawlowskiPinball

Affordable Pinball Machines

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Revisiting the homebrew Star Wars Pod Racing game. We originally put together a whitewood to demo and test shots. We decided to resin fill with all the custom shapes. Hoping to print + clear next week. Then assemble, playtesting and off to Chicago Pinball Expo in October.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Started to piece together what I want to offer for my bundle. This will ship 100% plug and play. If you open the shipped box and plug in two cables, you technically have a pinball machine running in a cardboard box.

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Circuit boards are in. Already started working on programming for the new design.
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[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

This is every modern game vs my playfield protection mentioned in my last update. I ran through 5 full minutes rubbing steel wool on it and that is the result. Steel wool is hundreds of fibers (X) very fast scratching motion (X) 5 minutes = a lot of simulated gameplay.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

The future of pinball is secured.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Speaker light kits are complete. Still needs some extra code support to support light shows for the small closed loop.
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[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

+Planning a Pre-Launch event at the Pinball Lounge in Orlando area hosting Star Wars customer game + my Dumb and Dumber demo game.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

+Final board design should be finished in the next couple days. Should arrive about 7 days after that.
+Finishing up CNC data for cabinet/backbox.
+Finishing up translite design/assembly process.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

+Star Wars homebrew customer is about to cut final playfield and have printed+finished. That is signed up to go to Chicago. Will hopefully be working direct with him a bit quicker now, to get all his needs met and finish that game for the show.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Still running a little slow here. I'm towards the end of final circuit board design. I'm hoping to have those in my hands in 2.5 weeks and do some quick testing. I'm also playing around with some R&D for playfields still.
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[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Already on my way to getting a re-print for the shifted artwork issue. Turns out the board outline I generated in my code brought the bit out too far, making the border not cut flush with the x/y origin + axes.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Things are progressing along on the manufacturing side. It's all coming together.
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[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

If not either see what other print shops have the tech for this or use one of the other methods I have to make playfields. Annoyed since I wanted this done today.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Playfield ready to go. Other than testing, first time I did the full playfield with resin. Let it cure a bit too hard before pouring so there are a few very minor indents (they look big but are sub millimeter). Did a quick sand to make sure everything is flat.

[PawlowskiPinball @PawlowskiPin]

Local print shop has never printed on wood and he's worried about it and the flatness for some reason. Seems he doesn't know his machine because other pinball companies use this same printer. Waiting to see if he will print it in the next day or two.