ROKR Pinball (Upgrade with LCD Display and new electronic)
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- This is a upgrade of the ROKR Pinball game!
The main idea was to get a better scoring and show the scores on a LCD display. Of course, this can't be just add to the original kit electronic. So i used a Arduino Mega as brain and build the whole electronic new. This means mainly, that it is now a fully new pinball game.
Featurs:
1 sensor more at the track left.
LCD display with scoring.
A hit target in the middle.
A bonus system with old scoring field.
Highscore get saved.
If nothing is hit, and the ball fall down, it don't decrease balls.
Some other changes to the play field, so the ball stay more into the play field.
Fully new game.
Possible to change the code by just connect the Arduino to a Laptop.
I hope you enjoy my ROKR Pinball upgrade.
This is so cool!! I think you did an amazing job ❤
Nice job! Very nice upgrade! May have to try this eventually; Definitely needs more sound, I have a WAV Trigger board, would be perfect for music and sound effects on one of these!
It would be awesome if you could add other features (skill shot, extra ball rules, multiball, spinner points, etc)
It have a scoring system, that was the reason to exchange all electronic. Extraball would be possible to make. Multiball would need some more Hardware and parts for the flipper, and this is not so easy, about this kit is not realy big in size to add a lot more. I had a lot problems just to add new sensors, about they was bigger as the originals. Spinner is near impossible to make one on this size of the binball game. At least, one featur it have more. If the ball get down and no points happened, you can play this ball again. And i also add a hit sensor near the middle ramp. Also the turn far left got a sensor to get points.
Awesome job. It would be nice seeing a Star Wars/Indiana Jones/Jurassic Park conversion of this. Question, can you reprogram the existing music/sounds? can you just replace the CPU with the Arduino and it's just a matter of reconnecting the old cables and put new music in?
Ty :) It is a bit more complex. you need to exchange all LED also, about they are part of the old electronic, directly placed on the main moduls and so, For the sound i used a mp3 player modul with sd card. This modul also have a integrated amp, so you can connect the original speeker. The infrared sensor i had to exchange all, about i killed the original by testing and find out how they really work. But all sensors are also moduls you can get in Arduino shops. This is abit tricky, about the original sensors are much more small. At least, the better idea would be to build a pinball game from scratch, and a bit larger as the Rokr pinball is.
@@hypnoticatrance Sounds like a good project for a beginner getting into pinballs/repair. It's easier to replace parts then build from scratch. Kind of like buying Arcade1up/old Arcade machines and refurbishing them instead of building your own. Thanks for the inspiration keep up the good videos!
thats cool i always wanted to put in a score in thats better than the original one but im clueless when it comes to this stuff
Since we can't code at the original electronic, it is not possible just to add a new scoring system. Thats why it need also to exchange the whole electronic. Arduino is a helpful tool to make that possible. You also could use Raspberry, but a Raspberry cost more, and have too much power for this and also it have less IO pins, compared with a Arduino Mega. So better to use even a Arduino.
We’re you able to utilize any of the sensors or lights that came with the unit? Did you have to buy anything that wouldn’t come in an elegoo starter kit?
I tried to save the original sensors, but unfortunatly i destroyed 2 of it, while i tried to find out how they need to be connected. so had to buy other sensors and those was a bit larger in size. So i had some problems to place it. Thts why i have some extra wood parts left and right, if you look at the places where the sensors was. I dont know this starter kit. But I used a Arduino mega, about this one have a lot pins. also i exchanges every LED with own ones.
@@hypnoticatrance sweet! Thanks!
Hello can u please give me the Ramp case thingy cuz it keeps flying of my flipper
I used the trash of red plastic from the kit to build it and some superclue.
Have you tried to use hall effect sensors? I want to try to glue them under part of the wood to see if they will work better than physical switches
I did some test with hall sensors. But the sensors I used need a relativ strong magnetic field. This afected the really small ball and the sensor not worked properly. So i used just infrared sensors. Thus are bad too, about daylight affect it. I only can play the pinball in night. The mainproblem of Rokr pinball is, that it is just too small. One day, I may want build a own pinball how is bigger for 16mm balls maybe.
@@hypnoticatrance You might look into LS18A mini stroke leaf switches. They're really tiny leaf switches that require very little force to actuate. I've been testing them for my own mini pinball machine and found even a 12mm steel bearing ball has enough mass to trigger them. There's also LS18B, LS18C, and LS18D variants with different mounting options.
@@null_builds Thanks for the info! Infraread is a bad choice, of corse. You also can cheat with a fire lighter to get scores.. and not possible to play it while de sun is shining. hall sensors are the way to go. Or in some cases maybe just using a microswitch. Those work propperly also.
Any chance you’ll post instructions or a kit to buy?
There is no kit to buy, and I don't have a plan to make one. It is just to complex to make a easy upgrade kit. To make it by your self, you would need some basic knowlege in electronic and also how to code Arduino microcontroller. I start my project with buy a Arduino starter kit and learned the basics of coding Arduino. Then i build all components and sensors on experimental PCB and breathboards. That way i could code and testing the pinball without having all asempled into the pinball wood. The solenoids run trought relais and also the LED stripe have a relais, but you could also use Mosefet drivers for this. Most components and also the sensors you can buy as moduls for the Arduino. Also the LCD Display is a Arduino modul. You also can learn the basics for electronic if have a Arduino starter kit. There are tons of tutorials for this.
Super helpful. I’ve built a couple pinball cabs myself, but this is a little different without any existing software :)