Episode 9: Pinball and Processors [Discussion]

[jackierulesall]

Ben Heck gets a new CNC machine and sets it up so he can build pinball cabinets. He also discusses using embedded processors for pinball and other functions.

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Had not planned watching it, but the shift register segment was interesting.

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[dh4645]

i wish they put out episodes more often. interesting stuff and ben is hilariously dorky. he'd be good on the big bang theory

[xenplex]

Interesting episode Especially liked the Shift Register.
But who the hell is that poor woman on Ben's Background? xD

There was a verbal twitter war between Jeri and Ben. Jeri left a twitter about asking people to identify her picture in the video. Apparently the pic was removed from this thread. I wonder who was so self righteous to do so. Then again, Ben should not have that kind of picture hanging around no matter how their feud runs.

Fry's was selling the old dip style propeller chips for $10. They are easy to breadboard. Just bought some propeller stuff just before xmas. Almost feel psychic.

[tokenuser]

If a pic was removed, it was removed at the source, and not by a moderator.
The twitpic link in your post says it has "expired" if you try to directly go to the URL.

I am not going to repost the picture to prove you wrong, but personally I think you are full of it.

[tokenuser]

Really???
Take off the tinfoil hat.
Here is what you posted (you had an edit at 3:19CST).

Originally Posted by davisan

Had not planned watching it, but the shift register segment was interesting.

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I broke the image tag so you could see the content of the tag.

Try copying and pasting it into a browser session.

If you are seeing anything it's because the image was cached.

Everyone gets a page that says ...

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[dh4645]

Originally Posted by davisan

There was a verbal twitter war between Jeri and Ben. Jeri left a twitter about asking people to identify her picture in the video. Apparently the pic was removed from this thread. I wonder who was so self righteous to do so. Then again, Ben should not have that kind of picture hanging around no matter how their feud runs.

Fry's was selling the old dip style propeller chips for $10. They are easy to breadboard. Just bought some propeller stuff just before xmas. Almost feel psychic.

so whats the big hub bub?
i dont know what is goin on

[haku]

Another enjoyable interesting show, keep 'em coming


On the microcontroller sound aspect of this episode, sometimes it's easier to avoid spending excess time & money re-inventing the wheel, in this case there's an amazingly good embedded mp3 playback module out there which plays virtually any bitrate mp3 file from an SD/SDHC card (I've tested with an 8gb card ok), serial TTL control of volume/track selection of up to almost 3000 individually addressable files, and the best bit is the price, just $10, the true datasheet for it is here.
Lots more info about it, including how to get the correct filename ordering on the SD card in this thread.