Playfield: "The Target"

American CIA 1960s spy-themed game.

Idea: Smart Doorbell

Why not bring the doorbell into the modern age? Hook up the doorbell to a Raspberry Pi, etc to add functionality to just 1 button.

Ideas:

1. Quiet Hours - Have the doorbell not work during certain hours. This will prevent annoyances while sleeping.

2. Recording doorbell button presses - Mark the time & date when the doorbell was hit.A simple log entry. To go into detail, mark the log when the state of the switch goes closed & then back open.

3. Maximum window of doorbell time: To deter people hitting the doorbell for a long period of time, have the doorbell stop working  after a certain time period. Functionality will be restored after a "rest" period.

4. Quiet Hour override - If the user holds down the button for a specified period of time, the bell will activate during quiet hours.

Playfield: "Afternoon Tea"

Pinball playfield: Wagger

This features the dual-direction "wiggler" 3rd flipper.

Idea: RPI in a keyboard

I have a Raspberry Pi zero, still sitting in the drawyer. My idea would be to put it into an old keyboard, drill some holes for various connections out(HDMI, etc), and install RetroPie on it.

With RetroPie installed, I could use all the retro-computers featured(Apple //, TI-99/4A etc) all in one convenient package.

I just need to find some time to do it, and a way to directly wire in the keyboard. Shouldn't be too hard.