Working video link:

http://media.engadget.com/videos/pong.mov

Where's the schematic?  :)



Maarten Hofman wrote:
>> Someone pointed me at this neat clock.  It looks like a couple
>> of people playing pong, but the 'score' is actually the current time.
>> Rather cute.  Probably an extensible idea, and one of the few things
>> I've seen to do with a display that is much larger than your chip's
>> memory...
> 
> It is indeed quite a neat idea. However, I'm not certain whether the
> size of the display versus the PICmicro memory would limit your
> possibilities. Most displays I used allow you to read the content of
> their memory as well, which means that basically your PICmicro's
> memory increases by the same amount. But even if you can't read the
> display there are clever ways to compress a representation of the
> screen in the PICmicro (in my TV-"pacman" I keep the maze in two (one
> for the walls and one for the dots) 14-byte arrays inside the 16F628).
> Currently the walls look rather boring, but you could make them look
> very nice despite them being represented by only one bit. And if you
> use the device to output fancy characters it is even easier: you only
> need to know which character and where, and the rest can be derived.
> But maybe this is not what you meant: let me know if it isn't.
> 
> Greetings,
> Maarten Hofman.
> 
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