Author Topic: Sweet Mary mother of god!!! Pong Clock (Read 27344 times)

shmokes · « **on:** November 27, 2005, 02:18:43 pm »

Someone made a Pong clock. It plays a game of Pong and every minute one side misses so the score reflects the current time. Impossibly cool!

quarterback · « **Reply #1 on:** November 27, 2005, 02:47:30 pm »

I want!

missioncontrol · « **Reply #2 on:** November 27, 2005, 02:57:55 pm »

that is awesome

quarterback · « **Reply #3 on:** November 27, 2005, 03:15:34 pm »

I don't know how much this thing costs, but it shouldn't be that tough for some enterprising programmer to come up with something like this as a screen saver or flash animation. I'll probably have to wait for that version

RayB · « **Reply #4 on:** November 27, 2005, 11:09:29 pm »

What happens when the time needs to reset to 0:00 ?

pointdablame · « **Reply #5 on:** November 27, 2005, 11:51:38 pm »

Quote from: RayB on November 27, 2005, 11:09:29 pm

What happens when the time needs to reset to 0:00 ?

you just have a minute long game of a 0 - 0 tie

spriggy · « **Reply #6 on:** November 28, 2005, 12:28:20 am »

As long as it doesn't make that annoying 'Blip..Blip' Bat-to-Ball sound every second!

shmokes · « **Reply #7 on:** November 28, 2005, 01:37:41 am »

Quote from: RayB on November 27, 2005, 11:09:29 pm

What happens when the time needs to reset to 0:00 ?

I'm guessing that the game is just programmed to reset when the score reaches 23 to 60.

Stingray · « **Reply #8 on:** November 28, 2005, 10:02:10 am »

I really, really, really, really want one.

-S

missioncontrol · « **Reply #9 on:** November 28, 2005, 10:06:03 am »

I too want one

ChadTower · « **Reply #10 on:** November 28, 2005, 10:56:45 am »

I don't often do this, but I bow to the awesomeness.

Now to do the same and make it something like Galaga instead.

Jabba · « **Reply #11 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:00:14 am »

Me too. That thing is too cool. I could probably make the program in C or GWBASIC, but would need some sort of display/CPU that I could run a EXE on it (i.e., Mini footprint O/S)...

allroy1975 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:02:33 am »

yeah, for sure a SS version would be AWESOME.

Stingray · « **Reply #13 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:22:15 am »

Quote from: Jamma on November 28, 2005, 11:00:14 am

Me too. That thing is too cool. I could probably make the program in C or GWBASIC, but would need some sort of display/CPU that I could run a EXE on it (i.e., Mini footprint O/S)...

You must make this a reality for those of us who are ignorant in the ways of the programmer.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #14 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:23:31 am »

A tablet PC would do the trick.

Stingray · « **Reply #15 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:40:09 am »

You could probably pull it off with a cheap automotive LCD and a mini itx board if you were really trying to be a tightwad.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #16 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:46:10 am »

The tablet PCs are in a nice case like that one, though, and were such a transition blip in miniaturization that you can probably get one off ebay for the cost of a 12 pack of good beer.

Stingray · « **Reply #17 on:** November 28, 2005, 11:52:19 am »

I didn't know they were getting cheap like that.

-S

quarterback · « **Reply #18 on:** November 28, 2005, 12:04:27 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on November 28, 2005, 11:40:09 am

You could probably pull it off with a cheap automotive LCD and a mini itx board if you were really trying to be a tightwad.

I was thinking of just using an old laptop from my basement with the screen flipped around so it's attached to the bottom of the laptop.

ChadTower · « **Reply #19 on:** November 28, 2005, 12:05:24 pm »

Quote from: Stingray on November 28, 2005, 11:52:19 am

I didn't know they were getting cheap like that.

-S

I don't think they even make them anymore in that size. I could be wrong but logic would dictate that they all moved to PocketPCs and smaller, more versatile things like those do everything but the laundry phones.

Jabba · « **Reply #20 on:** November 28, 2005, 12:11:32 pm »

What version of the Operating System are we talking here? Which one would work with the hardhare?
Win 95, 98. 2000, XP, or just plain old DOS?

quarterback · « **Reply #21 on:** November 28, 2005, 12:33:30 pm »

Quote from: Jamma on November 28, 2005, 12:11:32 pm

What version of the Operating System are we talking here? Which one would work with the hardhare?
Win 95, 98. 2000, XP, or just plain old DOS?

Well, my old crappy lappy won't run XP worth a damn, so I'd say 95, 98 or DOS. I mean, if you wrote it in 95, wouldn't it work on all subsequent versions of Windows?

ChadTower · « **Reply #22 on:** November 28, 2005, 12:34:08 pm »

Absolutely not.

AC. · « **Reply #23 on:** November 28, 2005, 12:37:58 pm »

Cool. That player on the left side must REALLY Suck!

ChadTower · « **Reply #24 on:** November 28, 2005, 01:09:13 pm »

His spinner doesn't work very well, it's not him.

Jabba · « **Reply #25 on:** November 28, 2005, 01:30:11 pm »

Quote from: quarterback on November 28, 2005, 12:33:30 pm

Well, my old crappy lappy won't run XP worth a damn, so I'd say 95, 98 or DOS.

RayB · « **Reply #26 on:** November 28, 2005, 01:49:17 pm »

If you guys REALLY want a Screen Saver I can make one pretty quick in Flash. I already have a Pong game programmed anyways.

ChadTower · « **Reply #27 on:** November 28, 2005, 01:54:32 pm »

Yeah, but you wouldn't want to build a standalone device like that. It would be dependent on windows for no reason.

Havok · « **Reply #28 on:** November 28, 2005, 01:55:46 pm »

That would be pretty easy with a Basic Stamp and LCD screen - would be able to run on 4 AA batteries...

ChadTower · « **Reply #29 on:** November 28, 2005, 02:05:02 pm »

Basic Stamp?

Stingray · « **Reply #30 on:** November 28, 2005, 02:07:36 pm »

Quote from: RayB on November 28, 2005, 01:49:17 pm

If you guys REALLY want a Screen Saver I can make one pretty quick in Flash. I already have a Pong game programmed anyways.

Would it work as a clock?

-S

Ed_McCarron · « **Reply #31 on:** November 28, 2005, 03:20:19 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on November 28, 2005, 02:05:02 pm

Basic Stamp?

http://www.parallax.com/detail.asp?product_id=BS2-IC

Microprocessors for dummies. I love 'em. The BS2 gives you 16 pins worth of TTL compatible I/O, a basic programming language, and some eeprom all for under $50.

I've used several in various projects.

Stingray · « **Reply #32 on:** November 28, 2005, 03:24:01 pm »

Quote from: Ed_McCarron on November 28, 2005, 03:20:19 pm

The BS2 gives you 16 pins worth of TTL compatible I/O, a basic programming language, and some eeprom all for under $50.

I got the part about it being less than $50, the rest looks somewhat like English, but makes no sense whatsoever to me.

-S

Ed_McCarron · « **Reply #33 on:** November 28, 2005, 03:27:26 pm »

Its a little computer, with 16 wires to attach stuff to.

I made up the rest.

Stingray · « **Reply #34 on:** November 28, 2005, 03:29:38 pm »

Ah. That makes much more sense.

-S

ChadTower · « **Reply #35 on:** November 28, 2005, 03:38:29 pm »

I want to build something with 4 foot long, red cylinders in a triangle pattern. I want to put wires on it and I want a pinball style LED display with a decrementing counter. Maybe it beeps with each decrement.

I see them in the movies and they look cool.

Stingray · « **Reply #36 on:** November 28, 2005, 03:41:20 pm »

Boom

-S

Ed_McCarron · « **Reply #37 on:** November 28, 2005, 03:58:26 pm »

Quote from: ChadTower on November 28, 2005, 03:38:29 pm

I want to build something with 4 foot long, red cylinders in a triangle pattern. I want to put wires on it and I want a pinball style LED display with a decrementing counter. Maybe it beeps with each decrement.

I see them in the movies and they look cool.

This is the perfect kind of project for a Basic Stamp.

I used one to drive a stock-car racing type christmas tree. The same stamp drives a 8" high 3 digit countdown clock, plays musical tones for start/stop, and handles input from 5 buttons for various times to count down.

Very versatile device.

mr.Curmudgeon · « **Reply #38 on:** November 28, 2005, 04:17:17 pm »

With all the programmers here, and given all the rather sophisticated stuff they do with Mame...I fully expect, within the next two weeks, an online tutorial on how to build a working version of this clock for under $100!

Don't let me down!

mrC

Jabba · « **Reply #39 on:** November 28, 2005, 04:21:47 pm »

Quote from: Ed_McCarron on November 28, 2005, 03:27:26 pm

Its a little computer, with 16 wires to attach stuff to.

I made up the rest.


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