[Turn a "Bally Wulff - Action Star" into MFME-Cabinet]

This is my progress so far. I'm not finish yet but it is ready to play.

Current Features:

 

- Simple RGB-LED-Stripes controlled by pacdrive (same as the buttons i connected some LED-Stripes with the pacdrive - a lot of wiring)
- Coin Acceptor via Parallel (Emulates Key-pressing in combination with a AutoIT-Script) As soon you insert a 5 EUR bill, the acceptor sends a signal to the ipac 2 device. It emulates a key press which execute the autoit script.

- Acyrl-Glas finishing + Coloring

 

Todo:

- FInd a compatible coin acceptor with parallel support
- Find a way to get the Azkoyen Dispenser working
- Finishing with aluminium-stripes between acryl/panel and display.
- Setup more MFME Roms

 

Some Pictures and a new Video:

 

 

[Turn a "Bally Wulff - Action Star" into MFME-Cabinet]

I have made some progress with this project. Today im going to take some new photos and videos

 

[Turn a "Bally Wulff - Action Star" into MFME-Cabinet]

Hey!

 

Last year i got a good deal in germany for a digital slot.

 

A Bally Wulff Action Star - Burn the Sevens.  (this is a google picture)

 

After a while i decided to turn it into a Multimedia Station with the following functions

• MFME Emulation
• Jukebox with spotify etc.
• Linked Smart-Home Panel

 

The devices comes with some buttons, a coin and bill acceptor(SV9USB) and also with two hoppers (Azkoyen).

 

First step to start my project was to expand the button panel. So i decided to drill some holes into the glas cover.

The glory result:

Spoiler

 ... glass exploded in thousand fragments ...

 

After that step i tried to replace the buttonpanel with wood and the other parts with acrylglass. 

Because of my unskilled craft skills the result was not perfect but acceptable and it fitted..

These parts are unpainted until i tested everything.

 

I connected the button leds to a pac drive and the switches to a ipac2.

 

 

Now i connected the Touch panel and the pac boards to a notebook and configured everything (driver for touch etc.)

 

 

The result so far:

 

The Black areas at the bottom and the top are because i dind't streched the mfme emulation view.

 

 

Now i try to connect the hoppers and the sv9 in parallel mode.

 

Sadly the coin acceptor only support "CCTALK" and i don't know how to get it work with mfme... So maybe i buy another multi coin acceptor that hopefully fit...

After this i try to build the led panels, cut the acrylglas, paint the panel and assemble everything together...

 

 

Thats it for now!

 

 

 

 

[Raspberry Pi as controller for Leds / Hopper / Coin Mech]

On 15/03/2020 at 17:45, gareth_iowc said:

Hey

The raspberry pi is the wrong device for the job.

I'm using a pac drive to run the lamps and an arduino with uno joy software for the button inputs.

 

 

 

Thanks for the info. I bought now several pac drives and a iPac 2 Board (i didn't thought that an arduino does this job well too...) to get started. 

[Raspberry Pi as controller for Leds / Hopper / Coin Mech]

Hey!

 

I have several raspberry pi 3 boards and would like to use it instead of iPac/PacDrive encoder.

My question is: Does anyone know if MFME is compatible with it?

Is there a way to turn the raspberry pi into an "iPac" like driver board?