It would be great to see some home made efforts now with so many amazing off the shelf bits of tech and 3D printers.
The site is also a nice compliment to the Technology Connections series on old pinball machines [1].
It's absolutely fascinating how concepts like score are implemented purely in electromechanical circuits (that is, motors not motherboards).
Then my mother found out about me "stealing" all that cardboard and my days of pinball manufacturing where over...
Honestly one of the happiest weeks of my life!
I had the opportunity to tiredly stumble upon Mark's display on my way out of a pinball expo. The quality and care that went into the displays move them beyond a learning tool and curiosity piece into a creative artistic expression. There's obviously a human who cares deeply about the exhibit. In this case, he was sitting in the back of the room near a mountain of travel crates, offering occasional encouragement and insight.
The message that I got was, "This is important to me, and I want to share it with you". It was not built out of a CEO's metrics and mandates asking me, "How many dollars are you?". It helped that there was literally a human behind the display, but maybe that same sense comes across via the website as well.
Regardless, it was refreshing. I stayed and browsed the whole display. Thank you, again, Mark!
