Gonna have to check it out. The motherboard I am using has wifi built in. Got some progress but had to modify the plans quite a bit because the tv wouldn't completely de-case so I had to widen it about an inch. The plans are for a standard Williams widebody machine. I will route 9mm deep x 1cm tall groves on the inside of each side to slide the tv in. A hinged back door on base and backbox. I still have to modify those plans to fit a 32" with a 17" monitor right below it. All kinds of lighting effects also and some real pinball mechanisms for sound and force feed back. I may put a score motor and reels inside for the sound of the old EM tables. The EM(electro-mechanical) tables are more complex to set up to make things happen at a certain time. On the newer ss(solid state) machines, it a little easier because they run off the actual rom chip from the original machine. The ems didn't have a rom so I hear you have to mess with the scripts in the main program. As far as electronics, so far I have a 16 channel relay board 12v 30a to run some higher draw things(shaker motor, knocker, ect) a 12v switching power supply. Some older em parts(sling shots, ect). For everything else there is a usb board that uses the rom program to send signals to this board(ledwiz) and a booster board which I don't have yet because the guy said to wait until midweek and he will have a new board thats better then all previous boards. So, I haven't seen anything from him(zebsboards.com) to run all the special effect strobes and RGB's which I never knew about. They are LED strips or individual LEDS that change colors by vari-ing the voltage, never heard of that but sounds neat. I still have to get the hardware kit(legs chrome trim, glass channels, ect), a coin door, digital plunger kit, lit buttons, a bunch of stuff. I was going to go on ebay tonight but its too late. Heres what I got so far: (not much) Tomorrow, mod the plans for the backbox and start cutting that. This is just a test fit and it sure would be nice if I could find the other 3 corner clamps. I do have some strap style clamps. I just hope I can get the tv high enough so the flipper buttons go in the correct place. All this messing around because I was too cheap to buy the tv that works perfectly without modding the plans, but I saved $200. That also means that I have to get a lockdown bar custom made for the width. It's a project that has all kinds of hidden costs. I don't even know where I am going to put it. Ahhh, who needs a dresser. Nothing like tearing apart a brand new tv. For a $400 46" tv, this thing has some very good viewing angles and it remembers its last state of power when unplugged. Its all going to run off my old PC with a few upgrades(video card and memory) got a used video card for $115 shipped($200 new). The memory is cheap.It has 2 Gb and I think 6 Gb should do it.
