DIY'er builds 'world's smallest" Pong game

We're going to have to go on record and claim that the Pong wristwatch still looks to be the smallest iteration of Pong that we've seen to date, but we'll let Ronald Dekker shakily hold the record for the smallest version that's easily channeled to a TV set. Nevertheless, the &microPONG creation is indeed quite diminutive, using just "an eight-pin PIC processor along with two potentiometers for the bat controls, just as the original." Per usual, the circuity knowledge used to actually assemble this thing is a hair beyond our realm of expertise, but judging by the extensive lineup of graphs and figures shown in the read link, those even partially in the know may be able to pull something similar off themselves.

[Via MAKE]

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 24th 2007 8:35AM]

Beautiful work!
The details are very well put forward as well.

Anyone building a similar project has an awesome resource right there.

Best of all, it's Pong!

(I play the winner!)

[mastershake916 @ Aug 24th 2007 8:40AM]

Pong watch is a not a pong game, but a watch that displays a pong like image.
Please engadget, quit being the detractor all of the time, alsways pissing over everything that you come across. Unless of course it's a cell phone or something put out by apple.

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 24th 2007 8:50AM]

Nobody at the tech blog has any hands-on electronics assembly experience?

I mean, these are discrete components soldered through a hunk of perfboard, not some ultra-tiny surface mount stuff.

If it is beyond you, then learn a little of it if you can some time.
It could be useful in your line of work. ;)

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 24th 2007 8:53AM]

Sorry I'm old school like that.

I know today you can have little experience in the nuts and bolts of these things and still have a handle on operating them and gaging how useful or cool they are.

"Not knocking the writer" is all I'm saying.

[Butter @ Aug 24th 2007 8:58AM]

"circuity knowledge"... is that like Orbity from the Jetsons?
cute.
_b

[idl3mind @ Aug 24th 2007 10:24AM]

It's nice to see someone can come up with a good use for film canisters other than keeping weed in them. hehe

[strider_mt2k @ Aug 24th 2007 11:12AM]

Pass that controller to the left, my friend! :D

[Kade Miller @ Aug 25th 2007 7:12PM]

I love it when someone comes up with a great idea for those little microcontrollers, I am a big uC fan.