After a pretty frustrating week, I’m pleased to report that the pinball project is at a really good point. Last weekend I started with high hopes, assembling the power supply components and mounting a flipper assembly to a cardboard box. My plan was to test the power supply by firing the flipper coil. […]
Tonight I hit an important milestone in my pinball project: things are working! Since my last post I’ve learned that doing anything interesting with the parallel port is practically impossible on a Mac, and so I decided to solve that problem by employing an Arduino I/O board. Sidebar: If you have ever, ever […]
Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls, Aphids and Common Lice, I give you: Donkey Wonder! The donkey wonder turns its head, lifts the rod in her right hand, chatters her little lips, moves her ears, checks you with her “eye piece” and then spins the ship’s wheel which rotates rapidly until it slows down […]
