Technology-related projects, tutorials, information, and news. http://www.techdose.com Added an article on the History of Skee-Ball Machines. It'll be a work-in-progress for a while, so it's a little rough around the edges at the moment, but I'd like it to become a good resource of information on the evolution of the Skee-Ball machine... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7408 Once again, nearly $200 poorer from a Mouser Electronics order =) Among the order was most of the parts for Ed Cheung's Williams Pinball Tester.. will prob need to order a few things from Digikey still since not everything was available from Mouser.... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7372 I'm kindof on project overload at the moment. Way too many things in the works including a few household projects. 1. Williams Pinball CPU Tester Bought this from Ed Cheung at the end of last year. This is a great little board Ed engineered to... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7354 I had a chance to check out Rocksmith for the XBOX 360 the end of last year. If you haven't already heard of it, it's a unique game which allows you to hook up an electric guitar (or theoretically an acoustic-electric) and play songs similar to the... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7350 I'm in the market for a new desktop or laptop (or both). Not quite sure which way to go, I've always had both a desktop and laptop for the last 10 years or so and have generally had my desktop serving something -- be it music, virtual machines, or m... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7309 It's time to say goodbye to 2011 and welcome in 2012! New Year's Eve is a great time to reflect on accomplishments, experiences and life lessons made over the year and to start thinking about how to adjust goals for the next year if this year didn't... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7264 Added a Model 78 Skee-Ball Information article. There's not a lot of information available on earlier Skee-Ball machines so I hope to help fill that gap. The earlier model Skee-Balls work essentially the same as the newer models, but with simpler e... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7263 No dice on the power amp or pre-amp being the issue on the Smart Ball alley. Still have the same issue where turning the volume pot makes an ever so slight noise but other than that no sound at all and no loud hum or anything like on some power amps... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7160 I had an interesting time last weekend attempting to diagnose the audio circuit on the Smarty skeeball machine. I learned a few things.. first of all they use a BSMT2000 DSP (digital sound processor). This was basically a Texas Instruments 320C15 D... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7148 Continuing on the tune of my last post -- I tracked down someone that had a Smart Ball Alley manual and it even included schematics which was great. There were a few components on the power supply board which I thought might be faulty since under lo... http://www.techdose.com/viewtopic.php?aid=7108