Hello Everyone!
I recently created a pong machine that was designed 'from the ground up'. The entire video game console is hand crafted from wood (stained and varnished), the controllers are two 10k pots in a stained / varnished controller housing using a DB-9 interface. The board inside of the unit is based off of an ATmega328 (typical Arduino UNO) but completely hand soldered instead of buying the dev board. It uses NTSC with the TVout libraries to start with.
My fiance and I have tons of fun playing with it! I took it into work recently and my coworkers enjoyed it as well. It was a fun project.
Here is an early board prototype:
Eventually I think I'm going to go with color, but I know I'll have to ditch the 16MHz crystal for something else in order to make it work and modify the TVout libraries. Also the prototype board will be etched and produced instead of jumped with wires as you see above.
The pong game was coded by me, it essentially checks to see if the pong ball is out of bounds in the +/-X boundaries and depending on the direction, the player will get the point.
Here's a video of it in action the night of its completion (I will be uploading a much better video on youtube later):
I would like to know what you guys think! 