Oh my gawsh, you guys! DTZ5 construction week is coming up! I'm going to try and post while Alec and I are frantically assembling these little bundles of pinball love, but no promises!
Thursday, February 28, 2013
Revisited Illustration 5: Tilt Sensor
Uh oh, amigos...it might be time for some hard, honest, truth-telling. When I drew this illustration for the first issue of DTZ, I was just beginning my relationship with pinball. Drawing the various components for the glossary, and the research I needed to do, was my first time actually understanding how some of these *seemingly* complicated mechanisms worked. The tilt sensor is one where I don't think I got it right...
I don't think that the bar that holds the tilt bob is supposed to be the part that sets off the mechanism? Someone help me here? Did I totally beef this?!
Oh my gawsh, you guys! DTZ5 construction week is coming up! I'm going to try and post while Alec and I are frantically assembling these little bundles of pinball love, but no promises!
Oh my gawsh, you guys! DTZ5 construction week is coming up! I'm going to try and post while Alec and I are frantically assembling these little bundles of pinball love, but no promises!
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You did fine... that's just a VERY loose tilt setting illustrated. If you move the weight up into the space in the ring, you'll require less movement of the machine to create a "connection" since there's less gap between the ring and weight.
ReplyDeletePhew! Thanks Jay! My fear of mechanical inaccuracy was recently triggered when I tried to fix an egg timer and realized I fundamentally don't understand how timers, and by extension clocks, work.
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