Ice Cold Beer Beacon Light Mod (ticket simulator module)
Hey,
A few of you guys that have been to my arcade parties had asked about the beacon light on my Ice Cold Beer. I'm not sure that I ever posted about it, but my original version used TTL and timer chips, and was kinda ugly. I just changed it over to a microcontroller board over the last week, so I figured I'd share.
Basically, the module simulates a ticket dispenser, and outputs a programmable pulse for every "ticket" dispensed. Ice Cold Beer has the option for tickets, so I set it to output 1 ticket for holes 5 through 10. I have the board drive a relay (PowerSwitch Tail) that runs the beacon light on top of the machine. Kinda cool IMO. Of course you can drive a lot of stuff... I guess you could even drive a beer dispenser so Ice Cold Beer dispenses Ice Cold Beer.
And Zeke's Peak could drive the Price Is Right mountain climber off the mountain while playing that yodelayheeoo song. 
The board by itself should be usable as a ticket simulator as well, if you have a redemption machine that you want to use without tickets, and without an "out of tickets" error.
Anyway, here's a quick video demo of it:
I don't know if anyone's interested in something like this, but I should have the ticket simulator module available for sale in a couple weeks. If there's interest in the whole mod, I could order the PowerSwitch Tails to save on shipping, and make a kit with the ICB ticket connector already installed.
DogP
Hey,
A few of you guys that have been to my arcade parties had asked about the beacon light on my Ice Cold Beer. I'm not sure that I ever posted about it, but my original version used TTL and timer chips, and was kinda ugly. I just changed it over to a microcontroller board over the last week, so I figured I'd share.
Basically, the module simulates a ticket dispenser, and outputs a programmable pulse for every "ticket" dispensed. Ice Cold Beer has the option for tickets, so I set it to output 1 ticket for holes 5 through 10. I have the board drive a relay (PowerSwitch Tail) that runs the beacon light on top of the machine. Kinda cool IMO. Of course you can drive a lot of stuff... I guess you could even drive a beer dispenser so Ice Cold Beer dispenses Ice Cold Beer.
The board by itself should be usable as a ticket simulator as well, if you have a redemption machine that you want to use without tickets, and without an "out of tickets" error.
Anyway, here's a quick video demo of it:
I don't know if anyone's interested in something like this, but I should have the ticket simulator module available for sale in a couple weeks. If there's interest in the whole mod, I could order the PowerSwitch Tails to save on shipping, and make a kit with the ICB ticket connector already installed.
DogP
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