LED Pong clock

Technology

London maker Nick Hall’s Pong clock looks pretty slick, and he includes all the code and schematics so you can make your own.

This project uses the classic video game Pong to tell the time. The 2 players automatically win and lose so their scores reflect the hours and minutes. The clock can also show the time written in words, or with large or small digits. Two buttons allow you to set the time and change the clock mode via a menu screen. The project uses 2 LED matrix panels from Sure Electronics, an Arduino, and a DS1307 clock chip.


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6 thoughts on “LED Pong clock

  1. lutra says:

    For me has the Pong clock a nice design and the idea to construct such a clock, was fantastic. But so nicely and imaginatively is like the clock, I would be never founded such a clock or buy such a clock. If I looked at the clock, I would not stop any more with it. And so that lose all time of the world.

  2. Seth says:

    Forty. Not Fourty.

    1. Nick says:

      Whoops! Good spot. Now fixed in the code available via my blog.

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