PinBox 3000 Art-cade by Cardboard Teck Instantute

PinBox 3000 is a cardboard customizable tabletop pinball machine kit with interchangeable play boards. Educators & kids flip out at the STEAM potential. Check out our new Gamechangers, Mutant Mods, and Electro-Teck games. Tilt the Future!

What inspired you to make this project?:
We are inspired by the process of tactile cardboard hacking. Once you’ve built the PinBox 3000 with your hands, you’ve intimately mastered its design. From there, you’ll begin to see the bits and pieces all around you as potential obstacles or ornaments for your customized theme. Of course, we offer printed parts, shapes, and suggestions included in the box, but the real fun is in the evolution of the game. It’s a commemoration of the moment of making. The idea is that cardboard is not so precious as to prohibit punching a few holes in your game. You can always fix it later. Pinball fanatics will dig it for the way it emulates traditional pinball on a microscale. You can add motors, LED, Arduino, broken plastic toys, collectables, recycled bits, whatever. Hobbyists will tune in to the craft of the game and make an interactive diorama. DIY families will enjoy the process, testing different ideas on the two interchangeable playboards that are included. The gamer will have a blast with the head-to-head challenge of BattleMode. Kids love to go crazy and try the most extreme obstacles, often with surprising results and new challenges. Two games can connect together, to allow players to pass marbles between them. The PinBox 3000 has proven itself in classrooms and maker spaces around the country as a go-to platform that allows experimentation in physics, design, craft, game design and fun. We hope to inspire tactile makers to build their own fun.