the guys copped alot of questions and concerns so this was there final comment and now a waiting game:
Hi,
Thanks to all those that have commented on our project. We do value the feedback but it can get confused with people's passion for the way they want to see things done. That's fine. We all do things a different way. However we have a lot of experience in this area.
Our electrical engineer has a PhD and has designed complex aviation simulation hardware. The hardware consisted of around 16 micro-stepping motors that required complex math for acceleration and deceleration in an integer based micro-controller. It also had a complex array of individually addressable LED displays, it used hardware interrupts for multiple AB rotary encoders, had a scan driven switch matrix, a boot-loader coded in assembly language and it had to talk to a PC. All this was done in real-time with communication over USB using a FTDI chip. So it had to be fast, accurate and flawless. Tens of thousands of lines of code went into this system, not to mention the PC software which also had just as many lines of code which I wrote. Then we had to manufacture, ship and support the product. We've also built many other similar systems but this will give you an idea of where we're coming from and our capabilities.
So, as you can see we're more than qualified and experienced enough to know how to build hardware, write software and ship product. We're also pinball enthusiasts so we understand the game. Oh, and the team members are all over 40 so we're not kids.
At this point we're going to bow out of the forums for a while now until we can show you what we have achieved. Then we'll let the market decide where the future lies.
Thanks again for your interest in the idea.
Regards,
The Pinball Kits Team
