Homemade pinball machine from scrap wood…
Add an arduino to this thing with a few buttons and bump sensors and you could have a fully functional score keeping pinball machine for less than a $100! I love how he made the paddles, again so simple yet genius! I’m also thinking this would be a great project for my cub scout den to do as one of there last projects before moving on to boy scouts.
Amplify’d from blog.makezine.com
With some parental help, this can be a kid-friendly project. Building a solid table with a functioning paddle assembly requires some basic woodworking skills, and may be fairly difficult without proper guidance and appropriate tools. But once the paddle assemblies are in place, just about anyone can build ramps and jumps or anything else they can imagine for the upper part of the table. To me that’s where the real fun lies–creating various obstacles and then seeing a ball bounce around all over and through them, somewhat under your power. Read more at blog.makezine.com
