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Laser Pong is a two-player interactive game where competitors battle it out
on their home or office ceilings. A fully customizable game area allows
users to have the game span only one ceiling tile, or up to the whole room.
Lasers represent the ball and the paddles, giving a unique twist to the arcade
classic.
At its heart, a combination of 5 laser pointers, 4 servo motors, a mirror and an interface kit with two slider controls work together to create this game. A servo motor controls each paddle's laser location, while two other servos control the XY-coordinate of the ball using a mirror. The sliders that control the paddle servos are hooked up to the interface kit.
Jason Chan created this for his short assignment as part a senior-level human computer interaction class at the University of Calgary.
Created in November, 2002
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