Arduino for Bowling Pinfall Sensor?

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Greetings,

This is my first post here at Arduino!

I'm building a bowling lane, and I'm considering adding a component which senses how many pins have fallen and displaying it on a screen just for fun.

I've been reading up on the Arduino, but I'm not sure what kind of approach or components would allow this to work. Is there a way to build a sensor that counts the number of objects standing on it and subtracts that from 10? Just brainstorming at this point.

Has anyone seen any implementations of something like this?

Thanks,
Matthew

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Hi and welcome!

Yes, yes and... yes! It's all possible.

You could add a sensor like a tumble switch to the supply feed of the pins, and after 10 pins let it do something else, like stopping the feed and lowering the arm.
The possibilities are nearly endless.