Hey there everyone, I'm Kyle Amburgey and this is my prototype for my Sonic Spinball pinball table controller! The controller is a handheld pinball table that utilizes three photocells and two SPST mini toggle switches to control the game Sonic Spinball, a Sonic The Hedgehog spinoff pinball-style game; for controls, you can tilt the controller to move a ball in the middle to cover the photocells, blocking out light and causing Sonic to move in that direction, use a pinball launcher to launch the second ball to cover the third light sensor that controls jumping and triggers both pinball bumpers, and finally use the two mini toggle switches to control the pinball bumpers on either side individually. Conceptually the controller is just like a handheld version of a pinball machine, tilting it to move mimics the real-life strategy of tilting the pinball machine to maneuver the ball inside the cabinet, flipping the toggle switches to control the bumpers feels just like it would on an actual cabinet, and using the launcher to make Sonic jump is just like launching the pinball through an actual cabinet.
To end off this post, here are two questions I had about the controller everyone:
1.) How can I make the design less clunky while still holding all of it's components?
2.) I had trouble getting the toggle switches to function properly, does anyone have advice on getting them to function?
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