You’d probably assume the first Star Wars pinball machine came out of the United States, and fair enough. The film was ...

Anderson’s passion for pinball spreads to peninsula Dave Anderson owns over 450 pinball machines, ranging from vintage electromechanical rigs from the 1950s to state-of-the-art modern releases. These ...

The history of pinball has a long and storied past. The first commercially successful pinball machine was introduced in 1931 by Gottlieb and it didn't even have the now-ubiquitous flippers. In fact, ...

Five pinball machines, including the first licensed Star Wars unit, have been saved from the scrap heap and will eventually be made available for the public to play at a special exhibition.

For their final project in [Bruce Land]’s class on designing with PIC32 microcontrollers, [Sujith], [Julia] and [Andrew] wanted to do something fun. And what could be more fun than bending to the ...

K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the ...

The non-profit, Project Pinball, places pinball machines in children’s hospitals and Ronald McDonald houses. Dr. Chuck Ells from the 45 TV Institute of Laughter is on a mission to get a machine to M ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...

Dr. Chuck Ells from the 45TV Institute of Laughter and Tanner Walters, an Eagan teacher who uses pinball to teach S.T.E.M., talked about an event benefitting Project Pinball, a nonprofit that places ...