Shopping List
Things to consider buying or borrowing for the course:
Standard Pinball Parts
- 1.063 inch standard pinballs
- 0.675 inch small pinballs
- standard flippers and flipper covers
Mechanical and Structural Parts
- 12mm plywood
- 3mm and 6mm acrylic flat stock (for assorted laser-cut parts)
- wood screws for attaching parts to plywood
- hot glue
- wood dowel pins for attaching playfield layers
- steel dowel pins for playfield barriers
- wood nails for playfield barriers
- heavy-duty rubber bands in different lengths
- thick O-rings to use as bumpers
- steel coil springs
- steel flat spring stock
- 0.250 inch rod stock (for flipper pushrods)
- 0.250 inch shaft clamps (for flipper pushrods)
Actuators
- high-power short-stroke 12V linear push solenoids
- hobby servos (for moving gates)
- DC motors (for spinning obstacles)
- stepper motors (for animated elements)
- speakers
- WS2801 LED modules
- assorted individual LEDs
Sensors and Electronics
- Arduino microcontrollers
- microswitches
- optical photoreflective sensors
- optical through-beam sensors
- MOSFETs for driving solenoids and DC motors
- snubber rectifier diodes for flyback protection
- hookup wire for sensor and actuators
- breadboards
- jumper wire
- A4988 stepper motor drivers
Lab Equipment
- high-current lab power supplies (can put out 12V @ 20A)
Optional
- heavy-duty arcade switches (e.g. if we actuate the flippers)
- rotary solenoids (probably not high power enough)
- buzzers