The Surrogate team were gracious enough to lend some equipment including a custom Raspberry Pi hat they had developed to interact with pinball machines. Jim and I had a chat with one of the cofounders and we were stoked to get started. These machines have cameras in front of them and a low latency communication that allows you to control the flippers and plunger with your keyboard.
They have two pinball machines already online, a Batman 66 and an Octoberfest. What would that look like for the arcade? In fact there's a Reclaim Today episode all about just that!Īs luck would have it one of the projects I've kept an eye on for the past year is and they just recently began accepting applications for creators to make use of their SDK and put physical machines on the web for others to play with. We've played with telepresence robots already and connecting smart lights and plugs to let Jim control Reclaim Video remotely. A few months back (weeks? months? what is time anymore?) Jim and I were brainstorming how we might expose some of the fun of Reclaim Arcade to an audience that can't step through the doors. Jim has an epic post about his trip to the states here that dovetails nicely with some of the work I was doing at the same time (well when I wasn't cracking the whip that is). The Fall has been a busy but fairly productive time here, so it's about high time I got off my ass and blogged some of that magic.
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