Propeller Powered Paxton Pinball

Nick McClick

I thought this was pretty cool & and it's propeller-powered. Ben Heck (Who I heard of from ripping multiple video game systems apart and putting them in smaller cases) made his own pinball machine, with the theme of 'Bill Paxton'. It's all powered by a Propeller - he writes about starting out with a Basic Stamp, and moving on to a Prop here. He also says thanks to Tomas and Ray for their objects. It was pretty well covered by the media.

One thing I thought was interesting - he used 2 SD cards simulatenously because of the FAT16 limit. During the project, fsrw was upgraded to support fat32, but he wanted to stick with what he already had working.

Here's a photo of the finished machine;


and the full article

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Microcontrolled

Cool! I saw the uncompleated version on EnGadget a while back.

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Don't click on this.....

Use the Propeller icon!!

You had better not start ANOTHER PropII thread.

davejames

...and he has an Atari 800 on his desk!!!

Now, THAT'S awesome!

DJ

...oh yeah - the pinball machine is cool too.

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Spork Frog

Actually, he used 2 SD cards from early on so he could stream background music and fetch data at the same time, without interrupting the music playback. (In his blog, about a year ago. Don't have a link.)

Nick McClick

He also said something about the 256 file limit in fat16. Maybe it's both.

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