Well as I’m sure those that were following have noticed my machine has pretty much just stopped. I lost my job and blah blah blah. Found another job that is keeping far too busy at times so I’m playing catchup and working on some other things before I can get to the pinball idea. As of right now I can only see me getting the scoreboard done in the coming months (years 
). After all, I still have 10,000 SMD LEDs sitting around collection dust. Disappointing (at least to me) I know. However, Scott over at XTC Pinball is ramping up his updates to daily updates! So head over to www.xtcpinball.com and follow his progress for your homebrew pinball addiction.
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A question many car enthusiasts tend to ask themselves while driving. It’s illegal to race on the street and it’s nearly impossible to get that person to show up at a track. What’s a car enthusiasts to do?! I’m glad you asked! That’s where Am I Faster comes into play (AIF). Ok, enough with the cheesy lead up. AIF is the latest website I’ve been working on. It’s a neat little website that allows you to create dream match-ups from a list of over 1900 cars (more added daily). You can even create your own custom car.
Run down of features:
Race 4 cars at a time.
You can search for the car you want.
Cars are grouped by make.
You can suggest cars to add to the list.
Accurate quarter mile times.
You can modify the information we have.
Over 400 (and growing) fully spec’d cars (We have the quarter mile time, 0-60 time, weight, hp and drive train) — This makes it easier to make Custom Cars
www.amifaster.com
So give it a try and have some fun. I’d love to hear your feedback.
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Am I Faster, amifaster, amifaster.com, Projects
Stumbled across this on RGP:
I have the code for my PBOS working to the point that I can coin up
1-4 players, and play a full game on the machine. Not to make it sound
too advanced, it does not do a lot, like score and multiball and most
of the sounds yet. But it has flippers, bumpers, slings, FIRE targets,
POWER targets, 1-6 targets, some sounds, and other stuff.
His website goes into some minor detail on the goals and progress. You can view that here: http://www.pbos.info
I don’t know about you but I sure hope he releases everything to the open source community. I’m a bit biased since I might be able to take it apply some/all of it to my machine. 
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controlling pinball machine, open source, open source pinball, Pinball
I let the magic smoke out. I accidentally brushed 14V across the prop plug and it really didn’t like it much. Really sucks too, I was having awesome success with getting the switch matrix and led scoreboard working together.
Worse yet is parallax is sold out and there’s no ETA on when they can get more. I guess this gives me some incentive to start working on the design again
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It’s been awhile since I’ve updated here. But it’s for good reason! I’ve been working on, literally, 8 different projects for work and fun (can you say ‘ADD’?). Some of them are more fun than others. Below is a little teaser on a long term project that I’m working on.
This project Involves (a short list):
Microcontrollers, a new language or two (SPIN/ASM), lots of switches and LEDS, wood working, physics (yuck), and serial communication.
Stay tuned. [Slow] Updates will come in bursts as new things happen.
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