German artist Niklas Rov has built himself a real life version of Pong – in other words, its an electromechanical version that uses relays instead of microchips and still remains true to the original. (video – You have to see it to believe it)

Clive Thompson adds:

This, to me, is a really important art project. Today’s computer users (and even many programmers) have no serious idea of how computer logic works: Unless you actually look at their schematics, computer chips are silent and utterly mysterious, as physically inscrutable as the monolith in 2001: A Space Odyssey. But computer logic is not at all hard to understand when you replicate it using physical relays—which one can visually see turning on and off.

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Pong Mechanik Official Site

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