Ralph Baer, Video Games Pioneer, Passed Away at 92
The passing of a maker icon. Ralph Baer, inventor of the first video game console, passed away at the age of 92.
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How-To: Pong-Playing T-Shirt
Apparently retro video games can make for some cozy casual attire as this tutorial from Instructables user TheGreatS on making a pong-playing T-shirt with a flexible screen demonstrates.
MaKey MaKey Banana Pong
Pete Prodoehl’s beautiful MaKey MaKey Banana Pong controls a Processing pong game with game paddles made from bananas. Of course, the MaKey MaKey handles the banana inputs — that’s kind of what it does. Inspired? You can pick up a MaKey MaKey Standard Kit from the Maker Shed.
Play Pong While Waiting for the Light to Change
If you find yourself on the streets of Hildesheim Germany you might be pleasantly surprised to be suddenly pitted against another pedestrian in a game of pong.
2 player PONGuino
In response to the Arduino pong post from a few days ago, SynOptx shared their 2-player PONGuino game.
Concrete pong console
Dutch maker Guus Oosterbaan used a cheesy off-the-shelf pong console, gutted it, wrapped the guts in duct tape, and embedded it in a concrete block. He also made a radio embedded in cement.
Round pong, a pong game for circular oscilloscopes
Jon Stanley writes in to share his latest project, the entirely analog Round Pong. Built to be played in a vintage Heathkit oscilloscope with a circular screen, he developed some tricky circuitry to generate the classic game using a circle generator.
