I recently posted a video about the various tilt mechanism an 80s pinball machine has.
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I recently posted a video about the various tilt mechanism an 80s pinball machine has. It got bit of a viral hit compared to what I normally post and it has reached a lot of new audience. From that I'm amused to see a thing I often come across when talking about things that were made 40 to 50 years ago: people questioning the implementation and suggesting "obvious" ways they should've done it.
A popular take on the various mechanical switches to detect rough-handling a pin is that OF COURSE they should've just put an accelerometer in there! I mean those cost a penny, everyone and their grandma has put one on an Arduino and made a thing that plays Star Wars light saber sounds when you wave it in the air.
But the thing is that while accelerometers did actually exist in the 80s, they were more of space technology compared to what was put in amusement games where a one penny leaf switch would do the job. So amazing to think how ubiquitous low cost technology is these days.
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I recently posted a video about the various tilt mechanism an 80s pinball machine has. It got bit of a viral hit compared to what I normally post and it has reached a lot of new audience. From that I'm amused to see a thing I often come across when talking about things that were made 40 to 50 years ago: people questioning the implementation and suggesting "obvious" ways they should've done it.
A popular take on the various mechanical switches to detect rough-handling a pin is that OF COURSE they should've just put an accelerometer in there! I mean those cost a penny, everyone and their grandma has put one on an Arduino and made a thing that plays Star Wars light saber sounds when you wave it in the air.
But the thing is that while accelerometers did actually exist in the 80s, they were more of space technology compared to what was put in amusement games where a one penny leaf switch would do the job. So amazing to think how ubiquitous low cost technology is these days.
@apzpins And amazing how little the history of technology is known.
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@apzpins And amazing how little the history of technology is known.
@amoroso I had always expected event the basic understanding would be there, but then I have a friend whose now adult son has never operated a VHS recorder nor a 3.5" floppy disk. He's also completely amazed to see a 5cm thick laptop and wonders why didn't they make it slimmer, which prompted me to show him a draggable with a CRT.
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I recently posted a video about the various tilt mechanism an 80s pinball machine has. It got bit of a viral hit compared to what I normally post and it has reached a lot of new audience. From that I'm amused to see a thing I often come across when talking about things that were made 40 to 50 years ago: people questioning the implementation and suggesting "obvious" ways they should've done it.
A popular take on the various mechanical switches to detect rough-handling a pin is that OF COURSE they should've just put an accelerometer in there! I mean those cost a penny, everyone and their grandma has put one on an Arduino and made a thing that plays Star Wars light saber sounds when you wave it in the air.
But the thing is that while accelerometers did actually exist in the 80s, they were more of space technology compared to what was put in amusement games where a one penny leaf switch would do the job. So amazing to think how ubiquitous low cost technology is these days.
@apzpins I've seen this play out a bunch on Youtube, the comment section is always a wasteland of confidently incorrect 'corrections' underneath a video of someone who clearly knows more about the subject than God
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@amoroso I had always expected event the basic understanding would be there, but then I have a friend whose now adult son has never operated a VHS recorder nor a 3.5" floppy disk. He's also completely amazed to see a 5cm thick laptop and wonders why didn't they make it slimmer, which prompted me to show him a draggable with a CRT.
@apzpins I owned one of those laptops back in the day.
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@apzpins I owned one of those laptops back in the day.
@amoroso Me too. Some I have in my collection are my own old machines, some I've had to reacquire when my teenage old stuff was thrown away as "junk".
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I went down a rabbit hole for Monday's newsletter and I'm still falling
Why does there have to be so much malware on GitHub... lol
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@gitanjali non di tutti, ma di alcuni, ben precisi, si. E non solo non abbiamo mai pagato, ma continuiamo.
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@swelljoe I take that back, I think it was cross-examination on that one
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Oggi mi sono imbattuto in una bancarella che spacciava Urania a 1 euro ๐ง
Mannaggia a loro! ๐๐ ๐
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@multisn8 i'm so glad you find it helpful!
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@Valerione https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacco_di_Hamas_a_Israele_del_2023
Qui la fonte scrive 3000...
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@bettercallsaul ci ha la moglie in raitelemelonitaliana dove fa carriera
