K’NEX Full-Sized Pinball Machine! (with automatic scoring)
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- Опубликовано: 20 авг 2024
- Thanks for watching! Be sure to like and subscribe, as I post a new video every 10 years. Let me know if you ever make a K’NEX pinball machine yourself! Here’s some extra info if you feel like learning more:
Motors.
The machine uses 3 motors. A corded power drill powers all 10 chain lifts. A second motor powers the moving ramp, the multiball door, the mini door on mini pinball, and the spinner. A third motor motor opens and closes the blue mini pinball trapdoor when activated.
Scoring System.
A Makey Makey (5:42) is a circuit board that plugs directly into a laptop and is used as the input for the program that displays the score. The Makey Makey only requires two pieces of conductive material to complete a circuit which indicates to the laptop that a specific key is being pressed. A Scratch code is used to interpret the keystroke inputs from the Makey Makey to perform such actions as play sounds and change the score on the laptop display.
12 “sensors” throughout the machine (5:30) allow these connections to happen on command. The 8 main targets lead to a sensor on their corresponding chain lifts to trigger the score. Another sensor signals when the ball goes into the top slot in mini pinball. There’s also a sensor that detects when a ball is lost, which triggers a “ball lost” sound for the player and tells the program that the player is one ball closer to “game over”. The final two sensors detect when the player pulls the red knob to launch a ball, which plays a sound effect, or the grey knob, which resets the game.
Gameplay.
To start/reset the game, the player first pulls the grey knob. This action moves a lever which pushes all 3 starting balls from the upper holding area into the lower holding area, ready to be launched. The player then pulls back and releases the red knob, which launches the first ball.
7 elements are immediately accessible from the play field: the orange tunnel to the pinwheel, the spinner hole to the rotating arm, the multiball door which gives an additional ball, the high jump to the face, the low jump to the long track, under the ramp which temporarily opens the blue trapdoor, and the left slot to the pin drop.
The 2 other elements are trickier to get to. When the ball goes under the ramp, the blue trapdoor is temporarily opened. The trapdoor leads to mini pinball, and the top hole in mini pinball leads to the 3 swinging arms and a large point bonus.
The first three balls the player loses on the main play field fall back down into the upper holding area, and are used in the next game. When the player loses more than three balls (by previously achieving multiball), the additional balls are rejected from the upper holding area and instead fall onto a track that leads them to the back of the machine (5:46). They are then picked up by the chain lift and placed back into the multiball storage area.
The game continues until the player runs out of balls. When the computer detects that the player is out of balls, it ends the game and displays the players stats, which are the number of times the player hit each of the 9 targets, hit the bonus target, and collected a star, as well as the total number of targets hit.
Strategy.
The player should use four main strategies to achieve the highest score possible:
Most importantly, the player should hit all 9 targets to collect all the star bonuses. Every time a new element is hit, the player gains a star. The stars give bonuses of 0, 0, 100, 250, 500, 750, 1000, 1250, and 1500 points respectively, a total of 5350 extra points.
Another strategy is to continually hit under the ramp (+100 points), which opens the trapdoor (+300), which leads to mini pinball and access to the mini pinball hole (+600). This loop, when fully completed, gives the player a total of 1000 points.
A third strategy is to hit the multiball as much as possible, as this makes scoring more rapid and prolongs the game. Although multiball is only worth 100 points, recieving another ball on the field is much more valuable.
Finally, the player should aim for the current bonus target. Every 40 seconds, the screen displays a new bonus target, which cycles randomly between the 7 targets that are immediately accessible from the main playing field (2:55). When hit, 400 bonus points are added on top of the points that are normally awarded for that target (1:21).
Credits.
The entire project was designed by myself, with the exception of a few elements.
Credit to Thibault Art ( / thibaultisthebest ) for his tutorials and allowing me to create the “Mouse Head” element.
Also credit to Shadownman39 ( / 39shadowman ) for his design of the rotating/curving arm and the flinging pins on the pin drop.
Music: Stop (Instrumental) - Approaching Nirvana. ( / approachingnirvana )
Scratch code: scratch.mit.ed...
I am a huge pinball nerd and this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen.
Thanks so much!
man dropped the greatest K'nex creation on all of RUclips and dipped
Holy crap! That's better than most pinball machines I've played, and its made of freaking knex!
This is one of the beautiful things i've ever seen!
Balancing games with balls, a ramp that can be crossed in 3 ways, crazy routes, a scoring digital system!! but above all, the cup holder xD
I loved how you managed to get Scratch to work with Knex!
That's some incredible ingenuity. I had the original pinball set when I was a kid, but you've taken the concept to a whole new level. Awesome work!
Trapdoor, mini pinball, sick rotating arm. This is INCREDIBLE.
This is an amazing project! We are stoked to see our little circuit board in your amazing invention!
Really amazing K'nex build! Great ingenuity and engineering skills!
Amazing that you even included a multiball feature and mini playfield. Very impressive!
The engineering here, and the use of the K'nex is just SICK!!! WOW!!! This is so incredible! The possibilities with K'nex are ENDLESS!! Great work!
Truly fantastic! As a pinball fan, I really like this K’Nex pinball machine you made! You are a true artist in construction!
This is incredible. The rotating arm was my favorite feature. Amazing!
This is, without question, the wildest thing I've ever seen.
WOW, what an amazing piece of machinery. NICE WORK !!!
Bro!!, this thing as amazing, probably the best knex creations out there, you should be proud!!
Here from /r/Lounge. Dude, this is incredible. I've never seen anything like this and I cannot imagine the amount of work that you put into everything to get it all running smoothly.
AND CUPHOLDERS
Thank you!! It was a lot of work and fun. I wonder how many people closed the video before they saw the cup holders haha
This is hands down one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen! You so are smart and this is so awesome
This is amazing! I have multiple real pinball machines but i would love to have one of these! Absolutely fantastic work!
Everything about this is incredible, I’m sure this took ages to design! My favorite elements are the trapdoor & mini pinball, and the pin drop staircase. The rotating arm is also really neat, good use of yellow gears to make it move like that!
I’m speechless.... mind blowing! Wow!
What an incredible contraption! Positively Demented....
Enjoyed watching every second. Even has a beer holder!
I’ll just have to wait for my Arcade1up Marvel cab to be delivered
to do my in home pinball playing.
Unfortunately it doesn’t come with a beer holder...🙁
Thanks for a great post.....
Definitely wasn’t a waste of those 6 1/2 minutes of my life...👍🏻❤️😎
Great job! This got posted on Pinside. Very cool build!
The mini playfield is very cool and great job on such an clever, advanced trough system for the balls. The cup holders are a nice touch. You’ve gotta buy them extra in regular pinball :b
This. Is. Killer. It's making the rounds on the pinball website, Pinside. Would you be interested in being interviewed about this beautiful thing for my pinball podcast: Uncle Pinball's Podcast? Besides the engineering, this is some killer pinball design! I am so impressed!
Thank you, and I’d love to! Do you have Instagram? If so, you could message me there. @tdbower
This is amazing. Such a great use of a couple old Big Ball Factories
Amazing work man the skull is a nice touch, cant believe your machine has mini pinball!
Very creative, as my kids had several K'NEX sets when growing up, that set up had to cost you a small fortune. It had to take you at least a years to design and build.
Thank you! And if you search Facebook Marketplace and LetGo hard enough, you can find some great deals. I made this for less than $300. I actually worked on it on and off over a few months and spent about 400-500 hours on it!
Made my day, thank you!
My daughter and I just built our first K'NEX roller coaster this past weekend and it took a handful of hours. I can only imagine how long this took.
My hat is off to you good sir
Amazing machine! Sharing on The Awesomer.
Incredible work to say the least!
This is some EXCEPTIONAL engineering... and great editing too! A joy to watch, Incredible work my friend. Subscribed.
That is something else! Wow!!!
This is incredible 😮
This is amazing. Nice work!!
Wow this is actually astonishing…
Pretty damn cool. Just as well it does not have a tilt sensor :)
This is absolutely mesmerising :O
This is absolutely amazing!
People are talking about Jeff Bezos getting a yacht for his yacht, but not even Jeff Bezos has a K'nex pinball machine for his K'nex pinball machine.
Great work and incredible details! really a masterpiece!
That’s gonna take a lot of K’NEX
New Zen Pinball Taple :) 👍👍💟🕹️
Woah! How could anyone dislike this what the heck! Too cool
You are going places brother❤️
Just incredible.
How many knex roller coasters did it take to build this? It's awesome
However many is 73 lbs of K’NEX haha
That is insane! Good job!
my new favorite!!! :)
Amazing!!
Well this is awesome!! Great job
GENIO, CRACK, LOVE IT❤🇦🇷
imagine some little kid breaks it and now you have to spend hours looking for breakages
Amazing job!
Stern won't be happy!
You sit are a genius
This is K'NEX on a new level. What is the software written in?
It’s just a free one I found online called Scratch. Basically for people who hate actual coding lol.
How many pieces is this? How expensive were all of the K'NEX parts? Even if you set aside the engineering (which is... a lot,) this is a huge build.
Buying used K’NEX on Facebook Marketplace is the way to go. I spent around $300, and still have a lot left over. I don’t know how many pieces, but without the power drill and laptop, the machine weighs 73 lbs. Based on the net weight and number of pieces on actual kits, I calculated an average of about 220 pieces per pound. So, probably about 16,000 pieces for this build.
@@tdbower I have like 3-4 K'NEX sets that I don't want anymore. If you're going to be doing more K'NEX projects in the future, would you be interested in buying them? I don't want much for them - mostly trying to get rid of old stuff.
@@TheJunkieBox Thanks! I may be interested, but the problem is they’re pretty expensive to ship due to how heavy and big they are. I usually just buy locally.
Wow!!
That is wild. I'm surprised it doesn't weigh more than the 73 pounds. It reminds me a bit of the original Marble Machine by Wintergatan. How much did you plan ahead vs adding small features and winging it as you went along?
I had a decent idea of what I would build in my head, and made a few sketches to plan out the play field and organize which targets would lead to which lifts and whatnot. And I made a bunch of changes as I went along. For example, there used to only be 8 lifts rather than 10. The 3 swinging arms feature from the mini slot and the side slot to the pin drop were later additions.
COOL!
DON'T BANG THE DAMN MACHINE!
*wario screaming oh my god while crashing into a bunch of explosive barrels here
👏👏👏👏👏👏
Looks like you were Quarantined for too long
This is one of the first HD fps knex videos?
indeed it feels like all the knex videos where made 6-8 years ago.
I thought i found the same video but it was made in 2012.
@@benvars5889 same I feel like this was a repost
@@polymertech Nope! I built this in 2020.
Hey there Tyler bower, My name is Martijn and i am verry curious about the inside. I wanna build a pinball machine myself to. Is there anyway we can get in touch to discuss this?greetings Martijn from Holland!
Sure! Send me an email tylerdbower97@gmail.com
How many man-hours did this project take?
About 200 hours for the initial build and major changes, then probably another 200 hours for testing and troubleshooting and making smaller changes. So ~400 hours as a very rough estimate.
Was the program made on scratch?
How long did it take you to build this?
how much to get one made? :)
It’s yours for $1k