An pong game whithout an single semiconductor or vacum tube. - Electronic Circuits Projects Diagrams Free

Someone Electro · 30th July 2005, 02:57 PM

http://www.cyberniklas.de/pongmechanik/video.html

This is an completly mechanical pong game,Its brain is made out of a bunch of releys.

The display is completly mechanical too.Its aculy white pecies of plastic that are moved by motors puling them on strings.

Today its way simpaler than that.You can make an pong game on a PC in minutes of simple programing.

If i wanted to make a pong game i wod use an cheap MCU or simple make an windows program that runs on a PC.

making such an mechanical tic tac toe game wod be quite a bit harder.

MrMikey83 · 9th August 2005, 05:36 PM

Yup, much easier to make a pong game on the computer...but wheres the fun in that? LOL
This is pretty neat. I'm not getting sound on the video, but I'm sure that this pong game is probably quite loud with all those relays clicking away.
~Mike

Someone Electro · 10th August 2005, 08:23 AM

The cliking noise os probobly hiden by the ting and tong sounds of the ball bouncing.

It just cliks wen the motor changes direction and thats when the sounds go off.

He cod also add an mechanical music sistem to it (almost evry game has music!).Meaby using an drum that has bums in it an these bumps hit metal pads difrent lenth(for difrent tomes) and theyt cod make music.

Thats how thay did it on the past.

but still semiconductors rule!!!

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30th July 2005, 02:57 PM	(permalink)
Someone Electro	An pong game whithout an single semiconductor or vacum tube. http://www.cyberniklas.de/pongmechanik/video.html This is an completly mechanical pong game,Its brain is made out of a bunch of releys. The display is completly mechanical too.Its aculy white pecies of plastic that are moved by motors puling them on strings. Today its way simpaler than that.You can make an pong game on a PC in minutes of simple programing. If i wanted to make a pong game i wod use an cheap MCU or simple make an windows program that runs on a PC. making such an mechanical tic tac toe game wod be quite a bit harder. __________________ Il give you shocking experience.

9th August 2005, 05:36 PM	(permalink)
MrMikey83	Yup, much easier to make a pong game on the computer...but wheres the fun in that? LOL This is pretty neat. I'm not getting sound on the video, but I'm sure that this pong game is probably quite loud with all those relays clicking away. ~Mike __________________ All Electronic components run on smoke. Let the smoke out and it no longer works. ~Tim Baker (Electronics Instructor at John A. Logan College)

10th August 2005, 08:23 AM	(permalink)
Someone Electro	The cliking noise os probobly hiden by the ting and tong sounds of the ball bouncing. It just cliks wen the motor changes direction and thats when the sounds go off. He cod also add an mechanical music sistem to it (almost evry game has music!).Meaby using an drum that has bums in it an these bumps hit metal pads difrent lenth(for difrent tomes) and theyt cod make music. Thats how thay did it on the past. but still semiconductors rule!!! __________________ Il give you shocking experience.