Crane Controllers Are The Most Overkill Way To Play Pong

Crane Controllers Are The Most Overkill Way To Play Pong

Ever looked at the wireless remotes you use for shop cranes — boxy yellow things the size of shoe boxes, with industrial STOP buttons — and think they’d be perfect for controlling the world’s simplest video game? No, me neither.

The intrepid YouTuber who put together the demo hooked up two crane controllers to a Raspberry Pi, used Python to hack the system together, and then had a (fully wireless) game of Pong running. There’s definitely easier, cheaper ways to play TV’s oldest game, but I still definitely want this for my living room.

[YouTube via Hackaday]