I'm sure some of you will have seen my crazy floppy disk cleaning machine, and even my disk backup machine, but in this video I want to build something new... This time, I attempt to build a physical game, that in the end will be controlled by an Amiga.

The game is inspired by those whack-a-mole style games, and the hardest part was to get the disks to sometimes pop up, and sometimes pop out completly without having to have stupidly powerful solenoids.

The initial design of the drive took many prototypes, and you can see how that was initially designed in this video

After I'd prototyped one of these drives I built five, and then created the electronics to control them using MOSFET and BRIDGE MOTOR drivers, all connected up to several Arduinos.

The Arduinos all had their serial ports connected together with a simple "only reply if you understand the message" protocol. Finally these were all hooked up to a TTL->RS232 level converter so I could connect it to an Amiga 600, where I created a game in AMOS to run it. The game also features a perfect 30-second soundtrack by h0ffman.

The electronics side, code for the Arduino's and finally the Amiga AMOS side was covered in this video:

Finally, here's a demo of me playing the game at Zzap! Live in the UK.