I'm looking for what type of sensor would work best to detect a coin falling through a slot for recreating an old school game. Here is a link to what the game was for reference. 1958-1960 Bally Skill Roll, Lite-A-Diamond, Skill Parade, Skill Score, Skill Derby coin operated arcade game
Make it real or else forget about it.
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if it is just a DIY-project and it does not matter what kind of coin you drop you can use a kind of IR-Speed sensor or Distance sensor and let the coin fall between the sensor legs. This produces a pulse on an digital input which you can detect and use for further actions on the sketch.
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An IR sensor or ultrasonic sensor module should do....
You can also count the number of coins ( or whatever...say basketballs, in case of an automatic basketball score counter or something ykwis..) if you wish to....
You can find a lot of such videos and references in Google and Youtube...
Do you desire the look of the original or just the functionality?
How are basketballs detecting coins?
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