It's 2011. How hard is it to design and build a custom pinball machine?
We've all heard how Mrs. Spelling paid through the nose to get some Aaron Spelling custom pins made, but it's GOT to be getting closer to being affordable/possible now, right??
There's free design software, people have CNC's, programming languages are easier, processors are faster/cheaper, you could create animations in flash and use a computer LCD display. Toys are plentiful online. You could probably reuse ramps and parts from other machines if you didn't want to custom make one.
At least one company is making custom pins today (i have no idea how much they'll do or what the cost is).
But is it really feasible to make one-off custom pins yet?
We've all heard how Mrs. Spelling paid through the nose to get some Aaron Spelling custom pins made, but it's GOT to be getting closer to being affordable/possible now, right??
There's free design software, people have CNC's, programming languages are easier, processors are faster/cheaper, you could create animations in flash and use a computer LCD display. Toys are plentiful online. You could probably reuse ramps and parts from other machines if you didn't want to custom make one.
At least one company is making custom pins today (i have no idea how much they'll do or what the cost is).
But is it really feasible to make one-off custom pins yet?
