Engineering

PINBALL!

THis year we are being challenfed to make a pinball machine for our culminating project for our Engineering Pathway.

PROJECT REQUIRMENTS

Above is the requirements list for our project!

STEAM!

This project will use all disciplines of STEAM!

STOP LIGHT 1

Today we reviewd how to code a working LED stop Light.

Stop Light with Raspberry Pi Pico

We Learned wiring best practices and received our breakout boards and wired up using our breakout boards.

Breakout Board Indicator Light Chaser

Today we coded a indicator light chaser by coding every pin number in our breakout board to where they would light up in order making it look like a type of continuous pattern. Then copying and saving this code into a GitHub file.

SCORE BOARD

Today we wired our score board to our breakout board so that it would light up and show different scores.

Start Button.mp4

PINBALL RESEARCH

START BUTTON

I recorded a video of the start button of a pinball machine and it also shows how the start button puts the ball in place.

IMG_3315.MOV

PIBALL RESEARCH ll

LAUNCHER

I recorded a video of the launcher of a pinball machine and this is showing the ball being shot from the launcher. This works because the launcher has a metal rod that is connected to a spring so, when compressed pushes again the ball and shoots it.