I am really proud of the way our Foosball table turned out. We purchased all of our materials from Micheal's. It took about 3 - 4 hrs to build the housing. The pieces of wood are held together We purchased the Mario and Luigi action figures from Target. Since my partner and I both like video games, the Nintendo theme was a must.
Wiring proved to be the most difficult part. There was a lot of trouble shooting involved. We switched from using servos to motors. The motors were able to move the handles a lot quicker however the were using a a lot of power. We had to get a 10v adapter in order to power the motors. Due to time constraints, we decided to get rid of the scoreboard. We couldn't figure out how to get it to stop reading noise.
Even with the adapter the motors still gave us some issues. For some reason when two users activated their handles at the same time only one users handles would work. The other handles would do a slow half turn or they wouldn't move at all. Although my Foosball table doesn't work as well as I expected, I wouldn't call this process a complete waste of time. I learned a lot about power and the different parts of the arduino board. Before this project, I had no idea that when the arduino board flashed yellow it means you are using too much power. If I had more time to complete the project I would try using an adapter with a higher voltage. The motors may respond better if they had more power.
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