Comments on: POV pong http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/ Fresh hacks every day Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:27:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Rich http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/comment-page-1/#comment-70456 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 11:08:56 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=10346#comment-70456

Video showing the Pong action.

]]> By: Aki Korhonen http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/comment-page-1/#comment-70450 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 09:33:53 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=10346#comment-70450 Hello,

The video on the post is the first video of the device from last year so it’s a bit old and balancing wasn’t so good back then.

I uploaded a new video showing all the current features, including the Pong:

And here is a video of the drawing program I made for it:

There is an ATtiny2313 in the base for the buttons and controllers and two connectors for the Pong controllers and one 9-pin joystick port for C64/etc joysticks.

The 2313 sends the button press commands to the ATmega8 on the rotating part via infrared link. Also the RS232 line is connected to the same and all the same commands can be sent from a computer too.

]]> By: miknix http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/comment-page-1/#comment-70413 Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:03:42 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=10346#comment-70413 Nice.. I was expecting to see “pong” there too :)

When I first received my arduino, I also did a simple POV in a couple of hours just for the sake of testing it.

http://www.miknix.homelinux.com/arduino/pov_display/rev2/

Despite the fact it is being constructed with legos (lame) and stuff, it actually works very well :)
It uses a IR led + sensor to sync with the rotation speed.

Anyway.. I thought it was worth to share.
Greetings all.

]]> By: Fox3 http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/comment-page-1/#comment-70412 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 23:29:58 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=10346#comment-70412 I’m noticing a lack of pong in the video. It looks like a good display though.

]]> By: Orv http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/comment-page-1/#comment-70401 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:46:01 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=10346#comment-70401 I suspect the wiggle is because it’s dynamically unbalanced. Even though there’s a counterweight, the LED stack is taller than the counterweight, so it has a longer lever arm. It probably appears balanced as a static assembly, but when it spins it will still be unbalanced.

]]> By: BigBubbaX http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/comment-page-1/#comment-70399 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:21:03 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=10346#comment-70399 Grafting an Atari controller onto the set would definitely up the geek factor.

]]> By: BigBubbaX http://hackaday.com/2009/04/13/pov-pong/comment-page-1/#comment-70398 Mon, 13 Apr 2009 21:20:14 +0000 http://hackaday.com/?p=10346#comment-70398 Pretty cool, but the video doesn’t show the thing actually playing pong.

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