This is the pinball project. The pinball project is a pinball machine that we make from scratch. The base of the pinball machine itself is made from wood, and other mechanical and electrical components, such as a pico, which will be producing the code for the entirety of our pinball machine.
This is my engineering design notebook, so this is where I document all of may daily activities from each class period, and we also make sure to incorporate the engineering design process to help us create any project that were doing
Scoreboard, and Background
In this image you can see how the theme of the pinball ,machine was James bond, it also shows this by portraying James Bond on the screen.
Scoring System/ Rules Board
In the bottom right corner of the image you can see the different set of rules, and the objective of the game.
Flippers
This flippers are used to hit the ball, while being controlled by the buttons on the side of the pinball machine. They fit the theme by correlating with the theme colors.
Launcher
I thought this launcher was very and unique, and different from the other ;launchers because with tjuis on, a;; you haveto do is press a button, instead of pulling back the launcher.
Targets
These targets in the back of the pinball machine are used to help you gain points, throughout he game, and the objective is to hit them.
Bumpers
These bumpers keep the ball in play, and helps keep the game fast pace, by rebounding the ball back into the playing field.
Unique Mechanical Component
I thought that this was very interesting because I've never seen a electronic device inside of a pinball machine, and it works with the game, like when you do a certain objective, something cool would play on the screen.
Rotating Component
When you click on the video, it will show you a video of a soccer ball rotating, I thought that this was really cool, because it kept the game very action-packed, and kept it interesting, by hitting the ball into an unknown area.
Overall Theme
This video right here, is a video of me playing the Pirates of The Caribbean themed pinball machine, and throughout the video i'm just trying to complete most of the objectives' while trying to hit the ball into the unique, and cool area that the [I ball machine had ot offered.
Sounds of Game play
This video is just a video of one of my friends playing the Pirates of The Caribbean themed pinball machine, and when you look at the video you can see that instead of using one ball, he got to an objective where it gave you three balls instead. You can also just hear what's going on throughout the game.
Ball Guides
I found this very interesting, how this was one of the only pinball machines that I've played that had these mechanical ball guides, so basically it was like the flippers, but they kept the ball in play once your pressed the button, but if you missed timed the button then the ball would've gone out of play.
Overall Board Layout
I decided to use take a picture of this Soccer World Cup themed pinball machine, because I really like how they had a goal in the pinball machine, and it would do this cool affect once you scored in the goal. I thought that this theme was really cool because I really like soccer.
Here in this photo you can see how I circled the main things that we needed to focus on, because there was a lot going on with this pinball machine. So basically the circle that;s closest to the bottom of the photo is sensor that senses when the ball goes past a certain point, which let's it know that the ball is out of play. The circle that's closest to the top is basically a mini screen that let's you know many balls have been used already.
This video shows how when you achieve or complete a certain objective the whole board will start flashing this really cool color.