Planning out the cabinet
When I first decided to build a virtual pinball cabinet, my plan was get a low cost used old pinball machine and remove the insides. After looking online, eBay, Craig’s list and asking around I could not find a low price standard size pinball machine to use in south Florida. Then one day I was putting an old bunk bed down to the curb and got a crazy idea! I removed the drawers, dis-attached the back, laid it down horizontally and wa la, it was a virtual pinball machine! Well at the point it needed a lot of imagination!
I’m calling this my prototype machine and keeping the cost down low by used old equipment and making whatever I can.
Yes my pinball cabinet started off as a dresser, 4 drawers and three sock drawers!
The pre-prototype
So the first couple of months, I used whatever was available to see if I could get something working, a pc, lcd screen and a my old family Sony lcd hd screen laying on its back in a spare bedroom, I set up a proof of concept. I was at the point I realized how tricky it was to setup all the required components on the PC.
