Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “National Maker Faire: Cardboard Pinball Kit”.
Okay, hi, I’m Dale Dougherty we’re here at the National Maker Faire in the campus of you DC and I’m talking to Benteen matchstick from montpelier. Vermont came a long way here, but let’s start what is pin box 3,000, so there’s a whole generation that does not know what pinball is so we set our minds to it and with the help of a laser cutter from our maker space in Burlington, the generator We took our cardboard ingenuity and we applied it to the laser and through, like 40 or 50 iterations, we came out with this perfectly gravity-powered rubber band inspired cardboard, pinball machine and you just drop a marble in that slot up their launch it, and then you got Your flippers here and you customize the play board. It comes flat-packed, it’s got 12 sheets of cardboard, you assemble in about an hour, and then you have. You can customize your play board to whatever theme you want and we envision this going into schools because it satisfies both the stem and the steam.
It’S like the old diorama project, but you get to you know, designate some interactive. That’S that’s. A good idea did is like a diorama exactly so, if we just you know where teachers we say just pick five things, you want to tell your audience your player, what they need to know about your subject, and they got to try to hit those five topics.
Those five you know facts or whatever it is, and so using all recycled materials and little bits that we find around. We create all these tricks and traps, and we want to create a little generation of makers who try to design their all their little their gates. Their shutters their ramps, there are switches, you can put electronics on this thing, it can take it and you can easily take it apart and read and reinstall another play board, so you can have multiple play boards. Each student could get one of these or you know, a household could have several of them and you switch it in with the basic chassis and you got a whole system of play.
So the pin box 3,000 system of play, so you launch it on Kickstarter. We launched it this morning we bumped our. We bumped our deadline up about a week to make sure that we hit it this weekend. So yeah we pushed really hard. We had an editing studio in the back of the van as we drove down here trying to get our video together.
We hope you check it out: pin box 3,000 arcade system on Kickstarter yeah, hey one last question, so I think you raised some money to get here in the first place. That’S right! We found out about my about it on Monday, so my wife actually megs. She launched a GoFundMe for us and our community really came out to support us.
We had eighteen hundred dollars to get us down here, so we rented a nice rig and we got a hotel and we set up our studio right in the hotel because we kind of were ready to come. So we slapped together some pinball machines, both laser cutters. In Burlington were shut down, so we had to actually hand cut some of the parts, but we scrapped together about eight solid pin boxes to get down here and we push the Kickstarter up.
So we could launch this morning. What do you say to your fans in Montpelier in Burlington, we’re so happy to be here and to share our cardboard in Vermont ingenuity with the world? We feel like this project has all the makings of a perfect Vermont, organic free-range art and science project and they’re really proud of us. We’Re really proud of our community for supporting it and play testing.
Yet all the kids from the after-school program and Beyond who set their ideas to to this. We. Thank you all great. Thank you been glad to have you here.
Thank you so much, it’s been fun. .