Episode 253 – Overrated
Brian Glod and Jarret Whetstone join us to talk about their new product, the Optical Trough Sensor. -Boards and Optos-Overrated Bracket-We’d Buy That, or Would…
Kineticist’s take
Slam Tilt interviews RPC owners about custom circuit boards and arcade operations.
Synopsis
Ron Hallett and Bruce Nightingale host Jared Whetstone and Brian Glod from Rochester Pinball Collective to discuss their custom circuit board products (optical trough sensors for Flight 2000/Nine Ball and speech synthesizer boards for classic Stern games), their arcade venue at 349 West Commercial Street in East Rochester NY, and various pinball restoration projects. The conversation includes technical deep-dives into EM stepper repair, Viper board challenges, and brief commentary on recent game releases and Spooky Pinball production/distribution strategy.
Entities
- Spooky Pinball· company
- Alice Cooper· game
- Beetlejuice· game
- Evil Dead· game
- Flight 2000· game
- Lightning· game
- Looney Tunes· game
- Meteor· game
- Nine Ball· game
- Orbiter One· game
- Rick and Morty· game
- Scooby-Doo· game
- Viper· game
- Rochester Pinball Collective (RPC)· organization
- Brian Glod· person
- Bruce Nightingale· person
- Jared Whetstone· person
- Mike Dimas· person
- Ron Hallett· person
- Zach· person
- Gladstone (glodstone.com)· product/website