I’m finally all moved out of my warehouse. I had to leave quite a bit of stuff behind but I was able to move all of my pins and pinball parts as well as pretty much everything I actually wanted to keep so in the end it was not a big loss. It was actually [...]

I gave away a dozen or so games to a local friend last year. I took some pictures to commemorate the event.

Recently I decided to treat myself to some new multimeters. The main meter that I wanted to buy was the Uni-T UT81 scope meter but I was having it shipped from China and the seller had a bunch of other meters available for really good prices so I decided to go a little crazy and [...]

Here are some sneak peaks of hardware I’m developing:

You’ve heard of a daughter board but how about a granddaughter board?
I built this thing a couple of years ago. I’ve been working with a fellow collector on some hardware development and he wanted to see an example of a logic IC hiding under and EPROM so I figured I might as well write something [...]

LEDs have been available to the pinball collector for quite a while now and I’ve been impressed with the results that can be achieved with them. I’ve also been disappointed at some of the things they don’t to too well like general illumination lighting. The biggest down side for me with LEDs has always been [...]

I was visiting an operator friend of mine recently and she offered to sell me some boxes of manuals for a really good price. I took one look at the boxes and handed over the money without hesitation. I was definitely not disappointed. I ended up with a ton of pinball manuals that looked like [...]

This year our family decided to do a secret Santa draw and pick names from a hat. The one rule was that you had to make the present. I drew my brother-in-law’s name and decided to build him an arcade machine running MAME. I’ve built a few MAME machines over the years but I always [...]

I made a trip to Calgary a while back to make a trade with a friend. I took 3 EM shooters and actually loaded them myself into my 1/4 ton truck. I thought the whole thing was pretty impressive!
When in doubt… add more ratchet straps.

I picked up these electro-mechanical shooting gallery games today. 2x Wild Kingdom, Gang Busters and one more for parts. Sadly they’re all going in a trade this weekend. These things are really cool but I don’t really have the room right now. They’re going to a good home and I’m getting a Bram Stokers Dracula [...]