Collaborate Disseminate
It was a melancholy Monday this week in the Big Apple as the last public payphone was uprooted from midtown Manhattan near Times Square and hauled away like so much …read more Continue reading NYC Hangs Up Its Last Pay Phone
Some projects just take on a life of their own. What started as a pleasant diversion or a simple challenge becomes an obsession, and the next thing you know you’ve built a two-player color Pong game with audio completely from discrete components.
If this one seems familiar, it’s because we were dazzled by its first incarnation last year. As impressive as version 1.0 was, all the more so since it was built using the Manhattan method and seemingly over the course of a weekend, it did have its limitations. [GK] has been refining his design ever since and keeping accurate …read more
Continue reading Discrete Pong Project Goes Big, Adds a Player
“Watching us, watching them, watching us.” Continue reading ‘Exorcists’ Tried to Purge the NSA of Its Demons in Manhattan This Weekend
“Watching us, watching them, watching us.” Continue reading ‘Exorcists’ Tried to Purge the NSA of Its Demons in Manhattan This Weekend
Pong may not be much anymore, but it’s the granddaddy of all video games, and there’s still a lot to learn by studying its guts. And what better way to do that than by having it all laid out before you as you play? All it takes is 200 discrete transistors and two large handfuls of passives tacked to a piece of copper clad board to get a version of Pong executed without a single chip that’s playable on an oscilloscope.
Clearly a labor of love, if not an act of temporary insanity, [GK]’s realization of Pong is a sight …read more
Continue reading Jaw-Dropping, IC-Free Pong on an Oscilloscope
After 29 years in business, Tekserve’s old employees and most loyal customers said goodbye with an old-fashioned auction. Continue reading A Funeral for Tekserve, New York City’s Most Iconic Computer Repair Shop