From Beth White's 3rd year Engineering Applications class at Charles R. Drew Charter School. Destin and Justin really knocked it out of the park with their Mario themed quarter sized pinball machine. These students designed used digital design and fabrication techniques including using lasercutters, CNC machines, and 3D printing to build the components, including flippers, targets, bumpers and passive componenets like ball guides. They used individual components like LCD panel, servos. solid state relays, buttons, switches, and solenoids to create two circuits, a 24V for the electromechanical parts, and 5V for the digital logic. They used a Raspberry Pi Pico to control everything programmed with CircuitPython. They also added music with a MAX98357 chip.
They started with some skeleton code you can find in my github:
https://github.com/ericzundel/drew_pinball_circuit_python
https://github.com/ericzundel/circuitpython-i2s-sound
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Drew Charter School seeks to fully integrate Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Math (STEAM) in a Project Based Learning environment.
Drew has traditionally maintained an interest in closing the technology and opportunity gaps, and the STEAM theme provides an excellent framework for the school to focus on innovation, creativity, collaboration and interdisciplinary studies. In the past 5 years, the school has made tremendous investments in STEAM including hiring specialized teaching staff, securing technology and equipment to sup
08/29/2025
Makerspace Manager Mr. Conner will be opening the Makerspace on Saturday, September 6th to help you use the lasercutter. See this video on how you can use the Cuttle.xyz website to bring your ideas to life! https://youtu.be/jw1dfZf4uv4
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