[SuperUnknown] aka [AvE], one of our favorite Canadian hackers is back at it with DRINKO, an adult beverage themed take on the classic PLINKO game from The Price Is Right. He’s built the game as a mancave warming gift for a friend. This isn’t a particularly complex build, but it’s always great to see all the little steps that go into a project, leading up to the finished job. [SuperUnknown] said that wood would be a great material for this project, but he is opposed to the senseless killing of peaceful trees, so he built the base from 1/8″ plate steel. The glasses were plain shot glasses masked and etched to spell out DRINKO.
The most tedious part of a fabricating a game like this is cutting and installing the tines. [SuperUnknown] used old welding rods, cut with a slitting saw on his Bridgeport. The rods were TIG welded into the metal plate forming the back panel of the game. To spice things up, [SuperUnknown] added an Arduino and some through hole WS2812 LEDs. While he didn’t have the flat surface mount WS2812’s on hand, that didn’t stop him. A quick trip through the bridgeport trimmed those frosted LED lenses down to size. The Arduino drives the LEDs through several patterns – much like the attract mode on a video game, or a Las Vegas sign. If you build your own DRINKO, we’d suggest adding some microswitches below each slot, so the drink to be consumed lights up.
I believe they are just regular RGB leds, not WS2812.
I love watching something come together like this. This dude combines great fabrication skills with a mouth wired straight to his brain – no political correctness here, and it’s wonderful!
I have watched enough of his videos to conclude he well traveled enough to use tact ( which is not political correctness) whenever tact is best used.. In that he is always pointing out when he might be unPC in case one would I can only conclude it’s scripted. Don’t get me wrong I like and view his videos, but I groan when I hear some of his nor awkward unPC moments. In the end he can keep his dick on the ice, I can think of marmer place s to keep mind,even if it’s in my pants most of the time.
Don’t look there could be any 25 Year Old Charter or Wild turkey in any of the drinks, nor would I risk straight Everclear, not a game I’ll be playing. In the event yo do don’t let anyone talk you into putting your dick in a vise.