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Make your own Pong-clock: MONOCHRON

Cory Doctorow at 9:20 am Fri, Feb 26, 2010

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MONOCHRON - open source retro clock from adafruit industries on Vimeo.

Phil Torrone sez, "Hardware hacker 'Ladyada' has released an open source retro arcade style table tennis for two clock called the MONOCHRON. According to MONCHRON project page they 'wanted 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 a 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."

MONOCHRON (Thanks, Phil!)

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  • Smoobly

    Ever since Tiger came out, I’ve had a Dashboard widget that does exactly this.

    Life imitates Apple.

  • GraemeM

    What if it never misses? Would time stand still?

  • Anonymous

    4 ways to built another PONG game http://blog.culturemobile.net/index.php/2010/03/31/356-5-facons-de-jouer-a-pong

  • Anonymous

    So, how does it change the time at the top of the hour when both players numbers need to change simultaneously? One person gets a point and both scores change?

  • kahomono

    And of course it changed to 4:20, what other time would they have chosen??