Got the final version of my Feed Frenzy micro controlled LED and Power driver today. Last few days I've been soak testing them, and so far it hasn't gone pop - so delighted.
"What is it?" - I hear you say...
A bit of background... I bought a
TZ last year, which had a load of toys on it. Some were good, some were not so good. I certainly didn't have the spare power connectors to keep them all powered, along with the ColorDMD I bought for it. So I set about creating a power driver board, to neatly power them. While I was at it, I thought about how basic some of the light mods were on my games - especially the Gumball machine, and wanted to merge my christmas light technology with my pinball technology!
For Christmas lights I use the
WLED open source project, which is a very clever app for driving individual addressable LED's, which are widely available, come in a range of bulb configurations and of course cheap. The app runs on the Espressif ESP8266 or ESP32 Chip, which has built in WiFi. The WLED team have created a really nice app and web based UI to enable a vast amount of config - colours, animations, timers, etc. I thought this would give my pinball mods a wide range of options, and also give scope to a really configurable (and low cost) pin stadium alternative.
I've called it
Feed Frenzy which is a nod to Fish Tales, my first pinball restore project, and a game I Iove playing.
Little vid of my showing it and explaining it in a bit more detail:
I had a few made, so will create a For Sale ad in the Parts for Sales section in Classifieds. You would need a little bit of knowledge to connect the LED's to the board (3 pin connector), and provide a good 12V power supply. If I get some good reactions, I could also open up a new thread just about this topic.
Abviously you could do this all DIY with an ESP8266 or and ESP32 running WLED, connected to a decent power supply.
