Make Your Own Open Source Retro Arcade-Style Clock 77
ptorrone writes "Hardware hacker 'Ladyada' has released an open source, retro, arcade-style, table-tennis-for-two clock called the MONOCHRON. According to the MONCHRON project page the desire was 'to make a clock that was ultra-hackable, from adding a separate battery-backed RTC to designing the enclosure so you could program the clock once its assembled.' It includes an ATmega328 processor (with Arduino stk500 bootloader for easy hacking. It's completely open source hardware: all firmware, layout, and CAD files are yours to mess with."
Re:Touch panel pong? (Score:4, Informative)
No touch panel. The clock plays Pong against itself, will "throw" a point for one side when one of the clock digits needs to increment, resulting in the game score equaling the time.
The Lady is cool (Score:5, Informative)
I love the things she dreams up and the level of detail she puts into the explanations. I've built a few of her kits, the "Minty Boost" being the one I use most. Warning, TV-B-gone can get you kicked out of sports bars and beaten senseless.
Not exactly new... (Score:3, Informative)
http://boingboing.net/2005/11/25/pong-clock-plays-one.html [boingboing.net]