There’s a party igloo with disco lights and everything. The story of Planet Winter is a bittersweet tale: basically, a bunch of penguins got tired of climate change and left Earth en masse for a penguin paradise where it’s a winter wonderland all year round. Check it out the build and gameplay in the video after the break. What have you been doing to ward off the winter blues? decided to lean in to winter and make a really fun-looking game out of it by combining the awesome PinBox 3000 cardboard pinball sandbox with a couple of Micro:bits to handle and display the player’s score. Is this somehow not cool enough for you? Here’s a slightly bigger K’nex ball machine that doesn’t seem to move as much, but also isn’t a full freaking pinball machine complete with meta game.Ĭontinue reading “K’nex Pinball Machine Is A Playable Work Of Art” → Posted in Games Tagged DIY pinball, knex, MaKey MaKey, pinball The only thing this machine is missing is a tilt switch, but as you’ll see in the video, it would probably get triggered quite often. If you’re hungry for more details, there’s quite a bit of info in the description. Anyway, all nine elements are explored in the video after the break, which frankly we could watch on repeat. Either that, or our favorite is the rotating arm that swings around gracefully and drops the ball on a track. Of course there’s a multi-ball mode, but our favorite has to be the trap door in the playfield that gets you to the mini pinball game in the upper left, because only the best pinball games have some kind of mini game. They all involve some really amazing K’nex movement, and each one uses aluminum foil switches to trigger scoring through a MaKey MaKey. Speaking of ways to score, there are nine of them total, and some are harder to get to than others. Many of those pieces make up the ten drill motor-driven chain lifts in the back - these move the ball through the machine after it goes through one of the track triggers and return it to the playfield in various delightful ways. estimates that it’s made from about 16,000 pieces, or around 73 pounds of plastic, much of which was obtained locally and is secondhand. Where do we even start? This is a full-size pinball machine, as in 7′ tall, 5′ long, and 3′ wide. But better late than never, we always say, so behold, (a little at a time, because there’s quite a lot to look at), ’s pinball machine built entirely from K’nex. It’s really a wonder that we missed this one, what with all the extra time in front of a computer we’ve had over the last year or so. So what’s an old-school hacker to do, but learn how to build a machine from scratch, just the way we want it? A great resource for this is the excellent Pinball Makers site, which shows quite a few different platforms to build upon and a whole ton of resources and guides to help you along the way.Ĭontinue reading “A Great Resource For The Would-Be Pinball Machine Builder” → Posted in Games, how-to Tagged construction, DIY pinball, electronics, pinball machine, retro Apart from a few random ones turning up - there’s a fun Frankenstein-themed machine in the Mary Shelley Museum in Bath, England - a trip to a local amusement arcade is often pretty disappointing, with modern arcade machines just not quite scratching that itch anymore, if you ask us. At one time they seemed to be pretty much everywhere, but sadly, these days they seem to have largely fallen out of favour and are becoming more of speciality to be specifically sought out. Those of us beyond a certain age will very likely have some fond memories of many an hour spent and pocket money devoured feeding the local arcade pinball machine.
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