Do you have any plans of open-sourcing or releasing your work here? This stuff is awesome, it would be great to try and apply it to different eras of pinball machines as well.

Just edited the post to have a link to the GitHub repo: https://github.com/elipsitz/internet-connected-pinball

Yeah, definitely if people are interested. Let me clean up the repo a little bit first :)

It's probably hard to directly apply this to other machines, but the interposer board idea would make it easy to take the same hardware and use it on any MC6808-based machine.

I am a pinhead! Actually on my way to a tournament right now. So yaaas please more info on this : ). Is the. Openpinball framework involved in this?

Nope, I actually hadn't even heard of Open Pinball before. Looks cool though!

It'd be nice if there were an open standard for pinball machines talking to score servers. For this project I had to do everything custom. If people started putting ESP32s on their pinball controllers there might be some actual demand for something like that.

We actually have an open API for anybody that wants to contribute live score data. https://wiki.scorbit.io/ Give me a ping at brian [at] scorbit . io and I can hook you up with a license and a dev token.

A lot of game development roles don't involve writing software but are just as exploited, like artists and designers.

If being in tech requires crafting your own rituals in order to stay engaged, what's the motivation to not simply quit and start brewing beer and growing tomatoes while still keeping your own tech rituals? If the fulfillment of working with technology is coming from outside having technology as a career, why stay in technology as a career? Compared to the feeling mentioned between doctors and patients I still don't see any actual compelling reason that staying in tech as a business in its current state is worth it even to the most enthused about technology.

> what's the motivation to not simply quit and start brewing beer and growing tomatoes while still keeping your own tech rituals?

- money

- job security

- experience

None of those really insulate you from disillusionment.

At least for me, and I am going to guess the majority of us, the comfort of a good paycheck outweighs the disillusionment, despite the result being a feeling that you're wasting 1/3 of your waking days on something you don't care about.

Every time I look at some flashy purchase that I'd like and can get with finance (e.g. new car), it always seems affordable, but the long term cost is that I have to rigidly stay in my income bracket or rise above it. There's no room for risk to fail.

I remember their official twitter responding to someone that exporting logs wasn't something they could/wanted to do for whatever reason so I wrote a content dumper super quickly https://github.com/IceFlinger/discord-server-dump

But its a big shame that they don't wanna include this as a built in feature since yeah exported logs are very useful.