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Take an Arduino, accelerometer and gyroscope-powered VR glove, some custom software, a projector and some funky interiors and you’ve got yourself the most futuristic game of Pong I’ve ever seen. Spoiler: the ball actually bounces off the stairs.
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We’ve seen iPad games that use iPhones as controllers, but Ping Pong Battle has to be one of the most fun looking ones in the bunch. It turns your iPad into a ping pong table and two iPhones into paddles.
What do we have here? Just a boring table, right? Of course not! Google Creative Lead Ryan Vanderbilt is hiding something much more exciting in this custom conference furniture.
There are office pranks and then there are office pranks. This ceiling-mounted, ping-pong-ball-firing robot is distinctly in the latter category.
Vietnamese robot TOSY is a master of ping pong. He also has an ab regimen that effectively distracts from his receding hairline. [Pink Tentacle]
Ping pong balls are relatively harmless, most of the time. Even if someone slams one at you with a paddle, it never hurts all that much. This pneumatic cannon changes that. [TinyEnormous via Make]
Using a single Lego motor and a whole heap of gears and Lego to ramp up the speed, this ping pong launcher will push out ping pong balls fast enough for any would be Forrest Gump to practice their returns. Oh, Lego: Is there anything you can’t do?
[Thanks Daryl!]
Nothing says “I know how to party” like a ping pong table completely covered in mirrors. After all, you can’t do lines off a regular ping pong table, right?
