The fax station illustrates digital data transmission for children and teenagers.
![faxstation 1](http://exhibits.fh-joanneum.at/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/faxstation-1-1024x681.jpg)
This exhibit was developed in cooperation with the company HolliNetz consulting for the initiative KET – Kinder erleben Technik (Children experience technology), to visualize binary communication. Two touchscreens, which are built into Plexiglas boxes, act as sender and receiver of a message.
![faxstation 2](http://exhibits.fh-joanneum.at/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/faxstation-2-1024x681.jpg)
When a message is send from the sender to the receiver, the communication is carried out with balls, which are transported by a mechanism to the receiver and are recognized with optical sensors. This allows to visualize also problems and errors of data transmission.
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