Based on research surrounding Arduino systems I've tried to identify other ways this could be achieved. Therefore upon discussing my ideas with tutors I discovered Tech Will Save Us which creates circuits and coding kits aimed at children, allowing them to create simple projects such as robots. Tech Will Save Us make a number of kits however their Mirco: craft kit and Synth kit where the most interesting as they contained elements that allow circuits to be created that produce sound when an element it's touched or moved (see figures 1-3). This would allow sound to be engineered within the pinball machine quite easily if alternative code could be used as I would require different sounds than those shown within the example videos and provided within the code online. Therefore if the code could be altered to produce different sounds and the circuit would stretch over the whole machine, one of these kits could be used to create touch-activated sound.
However an additional suggestion was made during peer discussion which didn't involve the use of a circuit, as it was suggested that metal strips could be added to the sides of the wooden block so that when the ball hits the obstacles the sound is made naturally like within a pinball machine itself. This idea could be explored if the use of a circuit becomes too complicated or uneconomical.
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