HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: Working Flippers

HOW TO MAKE A PINBALL MACHINE: WORKING FLIPPERS!!!
Today is a huge day, because we finally get to see our flippers in action and working!!! In order to have a working pinball machine, we need to get all the different parts to communicate to each other - Enter pinball controller board systems! I'll explain everything you need to know to get your own FAST hardware controller boards installed and working so we can actually get our flippers finally flipping!!

Table of Contents:

0:00 Intro
1:27 Materials needed
2:55 Adding power to your flipper coils
7:11 Which coil lug is which?
11:07 Connecting coils to the IO board
16:14 Wiring up the switches
19:00 Wiring up the slingshots
25:35 Flipping your first ball!!!!

Links to Resources mentioned in the video:

* STEP-BY-STEP TUTORIAL for getting the lower third of your pinball playfield powered, connected and flipping!: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E...

* FAST Controller Hardware: https://store.fastpinball.com/
* Mission Pinball Framework (MPF) software: https://docs.missionpinball.org/en/la...
* Led Zeppelin BoM: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/...

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If you haven't already, I challenge you to start building your own pinball machine, cuz why not!?!!?