How a Pinball Machine Works
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Renting six pinball machines and six retro arcade games leads to a hands‑on teardown of a 1960s mini zag that quits and gets reopened with a metal key; the inside shows the coin mechanism that weighs and routes quarters, bumper and flipper action driven by solenoids, a physical tilt sensor, and visible mechanical score wheels reset by a clacking motor. Demonstrations include propping the glass hood, tracing stuck‑ball fixes, and comparing analog guts to modern computerized machines.
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