From the start a big question for my #miniaturePinball project has been the electronics. I of course thought about making something custom, but I also discovered the FAST Pinball platform. It seemed otherwise perfect but I wasn’t sure if it would work to drive small solenoids at low voltages, as it’s meant for full-size pinball machines.

So I asked them. They were super supportive of the idea in their response and saw no issues with it, so looks like this might be the way to go.

Knowing just a bit about how pinball machine electronics work, I had an inkling that using a different voltage to drive “high-power” devices would be just fine, but never hurts to make sure.

Not having to design the electronics platform is going to save me so much time and headache that I can spend elsewhere in the project, which will for sure be needed. #miniaturePinball