Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet

Re:Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet by elipsitz on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @12:55PM (#34899728)

Yeah, definitely if people are interested. Let me clean up the repo a little bit first :)

It's probably hard to directly apply this to other machines, but the interposer board idea would make it easy to take the same hardware and use it on any MC6808-based machine.

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Re:Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet by 808nrlnd303 on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:01PM (#34899849)

I am a pinhead! Actually on my way to a tournament right now. So yaaas please more info on this : ). Is the. Openpinball framework involved in this?

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Re:Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet by elipsitz on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @01:20PM (#34900177)

Nope, I actually hadn't even heard of Open Pinball before. Looks cool though!

It'd be nice if there were an open standard for pinball machines talking to score servers. For this project I had to do everything custom. If people started putting ESP32s on their pinball controllers there might be some actual demand for something like that.

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Re:Connecting a 1980s Pinball Machine to the Internet by sfbrian on Wednesday February 22, 2023 @03:17PM (#34901992)

We actually have an open API for anybody that wants to contribute live score data. https://wiki.scorbit.io/ Give me a ping at brian [at] scorbit . io and I can hook you up with a license and a dev token.

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