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All about pinball! Homebrew, custom pinball builds, DIY tips and tricks, lessons learned from creating my own machine from scratch, pinball repair, unboxing NIB pinball machines and whatever other shenanigans that occur along the way.

All about pinball! Homebrew, custom pinball builds, DIY tips and tricks, lessons learned from creating my own machine from scratch, pinball repair, unboxing NIB pinball machines and whatever other shenanigans that occur along the way.

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The Pinball RoomVideo1y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Gluing & Sanding Inserts Part II

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Correct method for gluing inserts In this video I clarify some of the mis-information shared in my other video about gluing and sanding inserts by showing clearly my specific method, the materials I use and the process I follow. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: ArtResin Epoxy Resin Gorilla 2 Part Epoxy, 5 Minute Set.85 ounce Syringe, Clear, (Pack of 4): Set of 36 Acid Brushes: TCP Global Wooden Handle Longboard Sander for PSA Sandpaper 16-1/2" x 2-3/4": * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: New Upper Playfield

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: New Upper Playfield Only 3 weeks to go until the next NWPAS pinball and arcade show up in Tacoma, WA June 70-9th! It's time to get the upper playfield swapped out for what I really want it to be. I've been dreaming about this part of my playfield since the beginning and it's finally time to get it built and installed! Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: The Most Frustrating Part

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Freaking Flickering Lights!! I've finally fixed all my freaking flickering lights! It's been the single most frustrating part of my build. Especially since it really shouldn't be that hard of a thing to get right! Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

Elwin Played My Homebrew!!

My Homebrew Pinball Machine Almost Killed Keith Elwin!! A scary awesome thing happened last night...The GOAT played my homebrew pinball machine and almost got killed by a ball that went flying!! As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: A Better LCD Display

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: LCD Display & Speaker Setup I decided to replace the LCD display I had with something less fragile and not as likely to break when I take my machine around the country to different shows. I also opted to use the speaker mounts that are available on Pinballlife.com vs the 3d printed ones I was using before. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Continuous Improvement

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: More Changes and Improvements After a bunch more time watching people actually play my game, I've decided to make another substantial change to the game layout. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Dialing in the Staircase

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Perfecting the Staircase and other updates since last time Today I show the iterations I've been taking to get the staircase to work reliably so that I can confidently take it on location for anyone to play - plus I run through the other work I've done since my last video. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * MPF (Mission Pinball Framework) Tutorial for programming a pinball machine: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Dealing with Stuckyballs

In this video I talk about various ways to take care of balls that get stuck on the playfield. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Prototype Playtesting

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: A little playtesting with the prototype playfield in place! Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: UV Printing Playfields

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: How many layers of white does it take to get to the center of a quality playfield...?? Come with me to my local printshop, KKP, where we get to experiment with their giant flatbed UV printer and see if we can get a nice vibrant CMYK color playfield printed! Links to Resources mentioned in the video: *KKP Printing Experienced - 801-280-2180 * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Step-by-step Tutorial for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: DXFs from Fusion

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Exporting DXFs from Fusion 360 Quick follow-up video since this section got broken during editing of my last video. Hope this helps anyone needing to know how to export a clean image of your playfield cut lines to use as a guide when creating your playfield artwork. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Artwork Tips

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Tips for making your artwork In this video I share some of the things I found important while working on creating the artwork for the cabinet, backbox, and playfield. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Early Playtesting

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Final Prototype Testing Quick raw video that shows off a little game play on the prototype machine, and some lessons learned over the past week. Links to Resources mentioned in the video: * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by and shared with permission by John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo2y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Re-Wiring Everything

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: The Final FINAL **FINAL** Whitewood... In this video, I show my process for populating the final whitewood and creating a final wiring harness that I'm not ashamed of. This video is the catch up on everything I've been working on for the past month - there's been a lot! * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: * Pinball Cabinet Fusion 360 file created by (and shared with permission from) John Marsh -- Spike 2 Pinball Cabinet: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!

The Pinball RoomVideo3y ago

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Game Code Update

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Game Code Update June 28, 2023 I've been working on game code for the past few weeks and have made what I think is pretty good progress! In this video I give a quick demo of what I've gotten coded so far and then talk a little bit about the advantages of layering game modes in a logical manner. -12:24 demofails.png Links to Resources mentioned in my videos: * How to structure your pinball machine game code: * Event and Handlers in MPF: * FAST Hardware Documentation - * Led Zeppelin Pinball Project BoM (Bill of Materials): * Public Files on my Google Drive: As always, give me some feedback on what you liked and didn't like about this video - if there's anything you'd like me to cover in more detail, lmk!!! If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!