More than pinballing: Lego NXT pinball machine with nine touch sensors

Built with over 8000 Lego pieces, this Lego NXT pinball machine is powered by six NXT robots, nine touch sensors, 10 light sensors and four motors. It sure is one powerful gaming machine, giving you a little more than just a pinballing experience. You might as well call the "surround-sound" in terms of gaming. Taking inspiration from a machine built by Gerrit Bronsveld and Martijn Boogaarts, this Lego NXT pinball machine was built by Mark Gryn of the School of Computer Science, University of Windsor and Michael, an 11th grade student, participating in a co-op program at the University of Windsor. The only non-Lego part of this machine is the ball, which is made of regular steel. All the programming was done using NXT-G programming language, provided by Lego with the robots.

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