K’Nex has been around for less than 30 years but has already become the building toy of choice for elaborate creations that are impossible to build with Lego. Tyler Bower just demonstrated the ...

I fondly remember a wasted youth cozying up to glass-topped boxes of flashing lights, strange sounds and steel balls flying around an angled assault course. But, apart from helpful nudges from mates, ...

For their final project in [Bruce Land]’s class on designing with PIC32 microcontrollers, [Sujith], [Julia] and [Andrew] wanted to do something fun. And what could be more fun than bending to the ...

Wesley Hospital added some equipment Thursday morning to their pediatric unit. It may not be the obvious choice to help a patient heal, but if you talk to the kids, it's good medicine. The teen lounge ...

Rochester Institute of Technology students can sure play — and create — a mean pinball. As part of an interactive games and media course, 12 RIT students made cardboard and digital pinball machines ...

I’ve always enjoyed digital pinball on a variety of systems. Particularly the recreation of physical machines in digital form as these tables had months and months of development and design time ...

Earlier this month, Montrose bar Poison Girl celebrated its 19th anniversary with the usual bells and whistles: special cocktails, live music and food for purchase on the back patio, T-shirts for sale ...

ROUND ROCK — It’s mostly quiet on the warehouse assembly floor off Interstate 35 just north of Austin. A half-dozen or so assemblers, each working at their own station, are silently piecing together ...

Las Vegas arcade operator Tim Arnold doesn’t claim to be much of a businessman. The 62-year-old used to install pinball machines at bars and restaurants but, he says, is “too stupid to stop.” He doesn ...

A new museum in Queensbury, New York, aims to draw pinball wizards and machine tinkerers alike. The echoes of arcade game history fill the otherwise quiet Aviation Mall – they’re coming from Arcade ...