3 ms·
The horoscope reference is resonating for me. I know very little about pinball machines, out of curiosity, do some come with any amount of schematics or diagra
by j45 2mo ago
The horoscope reference is resonating for me.
I know very little about pinball machines, out of curiosity, do some come with any amount of schematics or diagrams?
- centuryfall 2mo agoNot OP, but this channel does a lot of walkthroughs of popular machines and explains how those systems work in-game: https://youtube.com/@papapinball https://youtube.com/@papapinball
- wpietri 2mo agoI also strongly recommend the Technology Connections series on how electromechanical pinball works: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVAUoqtVxFVIu2oZc2GGyDf https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv0jwu7G_DFVAUoqtVxFV... I would love to put them on a kiosk in the museum.
- wpietri 2mo agoI have schematics as early as 1937, but the odds that the manuals stayed with the machine are pretty low. (Usually these machines were owned by somebody who had a bunch, and I suspect the manuals tended to get collected centrally.) You can generally buy manuals on eBay, and some are being reprinted by people who own the original IP. The internet has a lot of scans of wildly varying quality. The AI industry's hunger for data means there has been a lot of progress in OCR and data extraction, so I have notions of taking something like PaddleOCR and trying to turn the scans into a cohesive reference site that will work well on phones, etc. But I'm not sure when I will get to it. If people out there are interested in working on a project like that, let me know. Email me at william@theflip.museum.