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Started playfield assembly

Posted on April 8, 2012 by abpinball

Today I started assembly of the basic mechanisms on my custom pinball playfield! It was super exciting to install the hinge brackets and drop the empty playfield into the cabinet for the first time 🙂 In addition, the following assemblies … Continue reading →

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Fabricated blank pinball playfield!

Posted on April 1, 2012 by abpinball

If you’ve been following along on the blog, it may look like I haven’t made any progress in a while… Well, I have 🙂 It turns out fabricating things like pinball playfields is pretty tough with tools you typically have … Continue reading →

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Installed P-ROC in Doctor Who

Posted on December 24, 2011 by abpinball

The P-ROC is a drop-in board that replaces the CPU board for pinballs. It connects to your computer and allows you to control the features (solenoids, lamps, DMD, etc) of the machine yourself. Williams WPC is supported (amongst others), which … Continue reading →

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Building a custom pinball machine!

Posted on December 23, 2011 by abpinball

Recently I have been considering what it would take to build a custom pinball machine. When you add everything up, starting from scratch, it’s quite a long list. There are many skills and tasks involved. The “big” items in my … Continue reading →

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