PONG Watch - MAKE Magazine

MAKE pal John Maushammer (who reverse engineered the firmware in all three Pure Digital disposable cameras and figured out how to connect them to home computers) sent in this amazing pong watch! He writes - "I loved the idea behind the Pong Clock and I've wanted to make my own watch for a while now... combine those two things, and I've got a start at the Pong Watch. This is just an electrical prototype - the hard part will be making the watch case and then squeezing all the electronics in there. The display is a small (1.2") 96x64 yellow-and-white OLED display. OLEDs are neat because only consume power proportional to the number of pixels that are turned on -- for a game like pong, that's a relatively small 1-2% of the display, so the power requirements are pretty small. Plus, the high contrast looks great with a game like this. I haven't worked out the power budget in detail yet, but hopefully I can get a day's use out of the watch, and then recharge the battery each night. The charger would also automatically set the time, so there will be no need for buttons on the watch."

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[snomel]

umm... i dont get it... it looks cool and all... but i dont get it...

[Lanceypoo8D]

?????????????????

[MurderousPandas]

So wait, your putting pong on a watch? And you can't play it? And there's no time? I don't get it.....

[Ericsimagination]

I had no idea YouTube provided video descriptions to describe what a video is about.

[nathangek]

What's the "make" in this video?!

[bearandwoot]

@snomel Every second the ball gets hit by the flipper. Counting time in a neat way.

[MrPHUNKAHOLIC]

SONG?

[1zacster]

I'll buy one for idk 20-50$

[Daltinoloco]

i want one. How much?

[3yE]

The game is automatically played such, that the score shows the current time - naturally the right side usually gets to loose. The ball reacts to wrist motion read by an accelerometer.