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Highscore hijinks and Movie madness
Posted on March 12th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
Woe and joy! Yesterday I removed my power driver board to change my bridge rectifier.. I didn’t think this would do anything my highscores because the CPU board has it’s own batteries and is separate to the power driver board.. but when I powered back up again, ALL of my highscores had vanished!!! Not only that but Rachel’s retardo 5.3 BILLION highscore is still there as Grand Champion!!! So basically, all my efforts have been wiped out, but Rachel is still at the top! 
[waves fist at sky]
To contrast that, check out this awesomely tacky original promo video for Star Trek The Next Generation Pinball! Crazy retro funkolicious! (more…)
Plastic Fantastic
Posted on March 11th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
After all my efforts to create my own plastics I finally decided to give up after I saw a shiny new set on sale at Pinball Heaven. I’m a bit miffed that I wasn’t able to make my own in the end, after all the effort I went to.. but I gave it a good go and I had fun, so hey, I was worth it! 
The new plastics look awesome. The difference they make is really noticeable. The older plastics have obviously heavily faded over time. (more…)
Classic 8-Driver problem… or not.
Posted on March 8th, 2007 by James.
Categories: Pinball.
When my divertor coil melted I assumed that I had the classic 8 driver problem of the TIP102 transistors failing on the 8 driver board.
At the time I took off my 8 driver and removed the transistor for the coil that turned to mush and tested it.. it was totally fuct (that’s “Function Use Completely Terminated” 
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Proof that fortune cookies work
Posted on March 7th, 2007 by James.
Categories: General.
I was just over at my parents place with my sisters having take-away chinese when this little gem popped out of my fortune cookie:
You have A Strong Appeal To The Opposite Sex
Frozen drips
Posted on March 5th, 2007 by James.
Categories: General.
I’ve modified my circuit with a little help from my dad. Now the LED(s) are on a separate circuit with a transistor driving them from the 555 timer output.
My dad lent an oscilloscope and the result is a nice little square wave:
