Project Milestones
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First fully operative
prototype
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program actuates flippers dependent on ball recognition
logic only rudimentary - repeatedly trigger both flippers if ball is below threshold
(see vid [to be attached
Components
Thsi section is meant to collect the latest considerations for the system components.
Ball Detection
Pinball Controller
Ball Physics Model
Main Program
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The described system is an autopilot for the pinball machine "Mary Shelley's Frankenstein".
A Raspberry Pi with attached camera is mounted above the pinball machine and the computer is connected to the triggers of the pinball machine to allow for their actuation.
The different parts of the system interact in the following way. From the live camera footage a ball position is extracted in a series of image processing steps (see Image Processing/Ball Detection).
This pixel position is then transformed into a World Coordinate System for further processing and passed to the SCChart Controller, which is the main logic component of the system.
To allow for timely reactions the SCChart Controller calls the Ball Physics, which performs a ball trajectory prediction.
For a quick overview on how to build and run the system see Dependencies and Compilation.
Overview
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Gameplay Footage
https://mega.nz/#!EF4TlZgB!3PzVmVmV3gVvEKSXyu5i_ZB1tX02m4dEaIi26us9kVk
Hardware
- Sega Pinballmachine: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
- Raspberry Pi 3 B+
- 4 CPU-Core
- 1 GB RAM
- 26 GPIO-Pins
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