Engineering App

Pinball

this year we are being challenged to make a pinball machine for our culminating project for our engineering pathway.

project requirements

Above is the requirements list for our project.

steam

This project will use all disciplines of STEAM.

Stop light with rasberry Pi Pico

Today we learned wiring best practices and received our breakout boards and wired them up using our breakout boards.

Indicater light chaser

Today we coded our break out board to light up in a circle one by one. The serial is a trouble shooter for your code so it tells you errors in the code.

Scoreboard

Today we coded our score board to light up and say the score and update on score using a breakout board.

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pinball research

Start Button

This is a video of a start button on a pinball machine we learned about and played.

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Pinball research ii

Launcher

This video represents a launcher for a pinball machine we learned about and played with.

Pinball research III

This is a picture of a target in a pinball machine we looked at and played.

9/13/23 Onshape Drawing in EngineEring

Stairs

We used extrusion, and center point rectangle.

Robot Sides

We used center point rectangle, linear pattern, and mirror.

Rectangles & Circles

We used, corner rectangle, and circle.

Rectangles

We used corner rectangle, center point rectangles, and dimension tool.

Drawing practice on Onshape 9/27/23

Target

Pyramid

Disk

Donut

Drawing Practice on Onshape 10/18/23

Bracket

we used onshape to create a rectangle, then we used the sketch fillet to cut out corners and make them round.

Cricle Bracket

We used onshape to create a circle, then we cut out smaller circles.

Wiring best practices

Per wiring best practices, we are only supposed to use red wires for powered and only use black wires for ground. Other colors are used for signal. You can see in this image..

Wiring Chart

Appropriate Wiring connections

Securing Wiring

Pinball machine Working

5/16/2024

Close up of the top

close up of the bottom

pinball Components

UFO bumper top

UFO bumper bottom

Alien servo top

Alien servo bottom

LEDs top

LEDs bottom

Alien target top

Alien target bottom

Flippers top

Flippers bottom

Sun target top

Sun target bottom

Launcher

Scoreboard

unique machanical component

Project reflection

This project was very difficult in many different ways. It offered many challenges for me and my partner to overcome and taught us great critical thinking skills. From components breaking and code not working it all causes many challenges and set backs throughout the project. We were also able to be very creative with this project as we were able to design our machine head to toe how we wanted. It also made us get very hands on with out project, we had to modify and create all of our components ourselves, and we had to do so in a way that they worked well and consistently.

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