hey what's up gang this Jeremy coming live from my shop slash sanctuary slash
arcade to talk to you a little bit about what I've been up to while sheltering in
place and I've been out to DES quite a lot this this video is gonna have a
little bit of a pinball theme to it because as you might know I'm a little
obsessed with the game of pinball I own three of them at home
I have operated them I have collected them for a decade now and fix them up
and sold them it's a hobby also an obsession over here we have an old
project of mine called airfield which was the ability to take an old play
field hang it on the wall and then have it run the actual attract mode insert
sequence because this is important but today I'm gonna talk to about a few
projects that I've been working on and then we'll end on a pinball one and
maybe even by the very end of this video we can all do a little bit of good okay
so um one project that I worked on recently is actually not pinball but
video related I touched the game frame code for the first time in eons to add a
feature that I wanted to add for a long time a pong clock now some of you
probably are aware of the concept but for those who aren't a pong clock is a
clock where the the score of the pong game being played is the time so every
time the left player scores the hour advances every time the bright player
scores the minute advances and I've always loved this concept and I spent a
couple days adding it to the game frame and I'd probably spend another couple
days just mesmerized by it I love this feature and I'll put it on github if you
happen to have a game frame and a Wi-Fi adapter it'll-it'll it's great I highly
recommend it what else my daughter and I have been
building Lego I've never really been a big lego person but we have this
treehouse kit that I got for Christmas it was a Lego ideas kit and we've been
doing one bag a day so it's taken us about a month to finish it we're gonna
finish it tonight and I really recommend this like not only the kit but the
approach if you have a you know some kids or you you know you have someone to
build Lego with you don't need to sit down and do it in a day or two just
despite what I've learned doing Lego with friends it tested you know you can
actually just build it over the course of a month and it's fantastic you visit
it every day and you little by little you get this thing building up it's
almost like a time lapse and then oh what else oh I fixed my RC car which is
something that's been sitting there for eight years since I broke it and then I
discovered my Labour's rooftop awesome RC track it's fantastic it's just a
vague rabble filled rooftop and I took it over there raced it around out my
back door and you know Brecon you know maybe it's actually a business so I
hopefully I'm not causing too much of a disturbance I should probably do it only
after business hours but the big thing I wanted to talk about is an update to pin
sim so I just did this this past week the pin sim as some of you may know most
of you probably don't is a interface for VR pinball games that I built when the
oculus rift came out and the original pin sim which has been you know it's
open-source you can do the plans have been released long ago the several
people have built it it is basically you know the first eight inches of a pinball
game it's at the right height it uses real pinball leg hardware and all
everything's correct and you put on a VR headset and it kind of creates the
illusion of standing at the game that you're playing well the problem is it it
requires you know being able to be a carpenter essentially and cut 3/4 inch
plywood and what I wanted to do is make something that I could make and other
people could make using a laser cutter I haven't have a glowforge so I built this
I call it the pin sim mini and it's the top portion of the pin sim as you could
have imagined but basically all of the same components
are inside of it so you have real pinball hardware I can mine this back
you have real pinball plunger you have real pinball flipper hardware and the
plunger uses the IR distance sensor so as you pull the plunger up
the infrared sensor senses where it is and that connects to the right analog
stick it uses the same pin SIM controller as the main one and wherever
I needed three-quarter inch plywood I just made spacers for it
and it worked out great the spaces actually ended up being perfect to mount
other things on to and it the designs I'm very happy with it it's the only
problem is that it's still 250 bucks you know and I know a lot of people would
like to have a like you know a little pinball interface but it's not worth
that level of investment so even though this is lower the price point a little
bit if you just want the flippers and you don't need the plunger
there's cheaper ways to do it and that's why hey why not I made the mini Pinson
mini as well so if you just want the flipper buttons and you don't need all
the extra stuff you don't need like tilt sense accelerometer stuff and you don't
need the analog plunger this little guy actually uses 2/3 the amount of plywood
and it just uses an off-the-shelf you know controller kit that you can pick up
on the Amazon 4 for 20 or 30 dollars it comes with its own you know USB encoder
it doesn't use the pin send stuff that I designed but it works fine and this
whole thing all in you can build this for $40 even including the wood which by
the way I discovered that I had been buying plywood to laser-cut that has you
know the adhesive paper on it but I discovered you can buy much less
expensive wood that's perfectly good and just put that doesn't come with that
paper and just apply your own I wish I know everybody who's in the laser
cutting it's like well duh but I this news to me so I bought this
you know 1 foot wide roll of masking tape and it's like 100 feet long and you
know you take a minute to apply it to your piece of wood before you cut it and
it comes out great and you don't get any of the burn marks that you would
otherwise get from like these prototypes that I made you know all these
nasty burns if you cut without the protective sheet on it just it looks
horrible and you know you don't want to wash that off so the pin sim mini and
the mini pin sim mini if you want to build one all of the files would be up
on Thingiverse if you have a laser cutter you can download the files and
cut yourself one all of the code for the Pinson controller is up on github and
will have links to all of this in the show notes beneath this video of course
it but if you just want to buy one maybe you don't have a laser cutter or you
don't the time you can buy one because each of these will be up on ebay and all
of the money made from the sale of each of these will be going to charity we'll
give it to feeding America to help some people who could really use the
assistance right now so please please buy one and let's see what we can do
okay that's that's it for me that's all my updates for now please let
me know what you guys are up to we love hearing from you whether it's in the
tested discord or in the YouTube comments what are you doing with with
your newfound sheltering in place time let us know we'd love to know and but
other than that stay safe guys and we'll talk to you soon from all of us have
tested see you later bye
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