LONG PONG - Making A Machine That Plays PONG But Its Sorta Long.....

[@CuriousMarc]

You’ve finally found a proper use for all these billions of transistors in raspberry pies and thousands of LEDs. You’ve saved the world once again.

[@shavono8402]

Dozens and dozens of gigaflops, cutting-edge microcomputing technology.... and it plays pong...

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Hahaha 😂 Marc!!!!! I have something I need to ask you about regarding talking to you via a teletype!

[@PhilipStubbs]

@@shavono8402 ... and Rick Astley. You see, not wasted. 🤣

[@CalculatorObsessed]

I love to see interactions between my favourite KZbinrs.

[@LikeDotAudio]

this is a colaboration I'd watch!

[@djsherz]

Now THAT is a big spectrum analyser display. If you listen carefully, you can hear Techmoan's head just exploded.

[@jurjenbos228]

I bet Techmoan placed an order already

[@Waccoon]

I totally geeked out when I saw LongPong used as an oscilloscope. Awesome! It's so great to see there are volunteers helping out with building and maintaining stuff in the museum. Hats off to all you people.

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

As long as LMNC isn't making a big profit from the museum.

[@funy0n583]

what's wrong with him making some money?@@thewhitefalcon8539

[@DevinTheDude93]

​@alexc4924 ahh yes everyone knows how rich you get from museums...🙄

[@wmason1961]

Breakout needs a gap at the top for the ball to break out into. Without that, you cant breakout. Getting the ball stuck on top is a game changer. A gap at the top is very important. Very cool project. Great job.

[@sircompo]

How the hell did I just spend the last four decades now knowing what breakout meant? 🤯

[@wmason1961]

@sircompo lol. That funny. A better question is why I spent $40 to buy it for my Atrari in the 80s. That's $98 inflation adjusted dollars. And I was pretty poor at that time. That was a lot.

[@sircompo]

@@wmason1961 Was that for the Atari 2600? I didn't realise the games retailed that high back then. That was still the most playable version I've ever owned, but only because of the Paddle controllers. Thinking about it, I'm going to build myself an Arkanoid arcade controller and play it on MAME; I never got to see the coin-op version before and it should be pretty cool.

[@wmason1961]

@@sircompo I think so. That is what we were using when my son was very young.

[@cyboticIndustries]

the earlier game of 'Stay In' hadnt proved to be much of a hit....

[@CausticCatastrophe]

I am super happy to be a part of this community. The stuff it's capable of, the vibe, it's all very wonderful.

[@TheKorath]

I remember developing a clone of pong in C++ and getting stuck on some of the edge cases in collision detection, so I decided to look up how Al Alcorn did it. Little did I know it was implemented completely in hardware.

[@magickmarck]

Same is true of the Atari version(s) I believe.

[@josho4228]

WOAH just got blasted by the past. I remember when I hacked my first iPod with “Rockbox” about 20 years ago it had those exact same demos- fire, life, matrix, and I remember another that was a rotating 3d cube. I always thought those were made as a proof of concept for the iPod specifically, but seeing them here makes me think those little demos have a much bigger history than I thought. Great video!

[@Flako-dd]

I love the dedication to build something just because it sounds funny 😂

[@JeffGeerling]

This is the coolest neopixel project I've seen in years!

[@Chris_Riggs]

Thanks!

[@TinyMaths]

LMNC: " make me loooong poooong " Chris (later that day): "ok, that's done" LMNC: " What else can you add to this?" Chris: "yes"

[@andrewwmitchell]

That's so cool!! Those special effects are really entertaining. What I really love is that something so cool was created by a collaboration of your community of volunteers... And Pimoroni of course!

[@DeadKoby]

I love the concept of your museum. I would love to visit it some day if possible. Many museums have a very singular focus... I like that yours has a broad technology focus.

[@tiagdvideo]

Brilliant job by Chris, you and the team

[@padders1068]

Awesome work by Chris and all the team! Congrats to you all!

[@williammanganaro2022]

Very ambitious and amazing project. Love the LONG theme here. Brilliant team ! Bless you all 😊

[@CalculatorObsessed]

I’d like to see a Techmoan review of Long Pong spectrum analyser. Looks right up his street.

[@john.dough.]

7:18 -> I'm so glad that someone put Bad Apple on it. what an amazing community :)

[@eveningdreamermusic]

looooong poooong sounds fun

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Yessssssss evvvverrryyy worrrrddd neeeds tooo beeee draweewnn ooouuuttt

[@Thesystem995]

Bloody brilliant fella👏👍

[@emmanuelcaron-garant6407]

Great project as always! To improve the display even more, you should consider taking into account the small gaps between the boards and somehow turning these lines of non-existant pixels into buffers or ghost pixels to get a more fluid image movement. Maybe you already implemented this in the code by now but I feel like the moving images displayed in your video just skip every gap as if it doesn't exist so everything gets slightly deformed and sort of syncopated. Thanks for the amazing videos. Lovely Jobly !

[@emmanuelcaron-garant6407]

Yes. Does that mean my idea doesn't work? I think this improvement would need to be coded in the Raspberry Pi controlling all the PCBs, not in the individual boards controllers@baduino

[@Mueller3D]

Yes, I was going to say something like that. The buffer on the Pi4 should include the "missing" lines where the gaps are. Those pixels could have their values "bleed" into the actual pixels on either side so they don't entirely disappear. With them accounted for, the ball won't feel like it "jumps" across the gaps.

[@andrewmudd]

So that’s what things would be like if I’d invented the Pong-Longer.

[@Darawnal]

A man can dream though, a man can dream...

[@modernpizza]

I love that episode so much.

[@dykodesigns]

The video playback option reminds me of those cool video walls from early 90’s TV shows where they had an entire array of CRT’s stacked in a matrix configuration.

[@VectrexForever]

Those are now obsolete... hmmm... wait a minute...

[@ZaphodHarkonnen]

Neat. I remember seeing this being worked on when I visited last month.

[@freeculture]

So you have to travel a looong distance to get to play looong pong

[@GalileoAV]

Bad Apple playing at 7:18 had me dying lmao. Well done as always guys

[@1kreature]

Congratulations on the invention of Plong !

[@andcrafter4790]

7:16 good to see it get the proper test it deserves

[@ZakLeek]

This looks amazing! The waveform visualiser in red combined with the red LEDs on the megadrone are really cool. 😎 Thanks so much for showing this! ❤

[@mccabejohn]

Sams our generations Tim Hunkin and I'm all here for it !!

[@truecuckoo]

Nice!

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

:D

[@Digital-Dan]

My favorite Pong simulator was a one-D version that we coded into the "null job" on a PDP-6 computer in 1969 or 1970. It ran in the lights that were used as part of the system to key in individual data words by hand. Once the null job was running, it presented a light that would move left or right, and could be reversed if you toggled a selected switch at the right time. Of course, if somebody actually started to use the system, all bets were off. Great fun.

[@T_ufy]

5:10 TF THE ORGAN PLAYING PIRATES FOR 😂😂

[@stocktonjoans]

love the Matrix code-esque falling greed LED's, using a Matrix Code screen saver makes any tech cooler by almost an entire order of magnitude

[@3D6Space]

I love you, brother. Your positivity is through the roof!

[@steampunkscientist]

That would be so cool to see it in person, because If it's worth doing, it's worth blowing everything out of proportion.

[@wboumans]

That waveform is a nice fit

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

It is Int it! Good colour toooo

[@Colin_Ames]

Outstanding piece of kit. Kudos to all involved in this.

[@citruscyanide]

This. This is SICK!! You guys have outdone yourselves!

[@althejazzman]

So satisfying to see that the museum is turning out to be so collaborative.

[@inazumadenki5588]

Your dedication to your art / tech / preservation efforts is inspiring. Keep up the amazing work!

[@nat7278]

That's sick! I'd want to put a grey gel over it if I made one, my ocd brain just sees the grid of pixel. That signal generator is the best! Total gem. What a great addition.

[@thadoggma]

If I could come to the UK , I would love to come see whats going on at the museum in person, and would gladly help out. I love to see all the great things you guys keep coming up with. I would love to see some kind of midi live streaming system integrated with the organ! Just upload your midi file and wait in line to hear it. Something tells me that thing might not ever stop playing again...

[@blackmoofou6385]

Great work Chris, Dax and Sam a real transatlantic project! I love it, I love Pong how can I not!

[@olli_k]

Breakout looks like a container ship...

[@AaronBockelie]

We need "Longer Pong" where the play field in the museum is matched up with the other side of a play field on a web page somewhere, so we can play all over the world with museum patrons.

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

Haha. We are working with what we got, I think there is actually 1d pong which is just an led strip! I think that's as small aspect ratio as you can get!

[@ozzelot3349]

Longer Ponger!

[@magickmarck]

​@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTERflatpong as in flatland by Edward Abbey. Life changing book

[@freeculture]

@@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER Hmm isn't that the Knight Rider / Cylon helmet (same guy did it).

[@magickmarck]

Man it's such a privilege just to watch this channel over time and get a sense of what you do. Due to finances I will likely never get a chance to stop by, but you have been a huge source of inspiration to me. I'm a visual artist. your vision and ambition makes me so happy and inspires me to pursue my weird, laborious ideas. Thank you!

[@magickmarck]

Also oooh Hammond enclosure! Those is nice!

[@leeparsons70]

great work you done their. Missile command comes to mind with a load more games from the spectrum, amstrad and bbc

[@enryfrafranci]

Having written bad apple for the cosmic unicorn makes this even more fun, not sure if they saw my work and that's what inspired them, but it's still impressive

[@LOOKMUMNOCOMPUTER]

nice one!

[@MrThisuldo]

Brilliant! And dad got a mention too 😊

[@-Slinger-]

I've got two maybe complicated ideas for games. 1. Your character starts on the left and has to make their way to a portal on the right via puzzles and platforms and traps and such. Could also be viewed from above making it more of a maze (with doors and kays or maybe puzzles like Sokoban) instead of a platformer, or why not both? 2. Side scrolling platformer à la Mario Bros. If there is an open source one available that would make this pretty easy to implement I'd recon, otherwise someone has to create a game from scratch. 3. TES Skyrim. Every platform needs Skyrim, from phones to fridges to Looong Pooong.

[@LFOVCF]

A great addition to the museum. Made me reminisce for the 70s video games. Also the W-I-D-E-S-T space invaders I'd ever played! Great to see you again this year, and the church organ is now just awesome! An amazing place, but oh my, you can blow 2 hours SO easily! I'd recommend visitors allow 3 hours to do it justice. Can't wait to see what you do with that air-raid siren😂 You'll have old folks diving under the table😂

[@ColinChick]

Your channel never ceases to amaze!

[@AyyyGabagool]

the waveform is SO cool to have on top of the mega drone dude

[@HOLLASOUNDS]

If I still lived in Kent I'd volunteer at your museum.

[@daviedaviedave]

Combat?! That's awesome! I remember playing that game on my Atari 2600 back in the day.

[@kioshiki4519]

That's awesome, I really need to make the effort and visit soon.

[@yuGtahT]

Chris is a beast!

[@justy0]

Idea: to avoid pixel jumping between the panels due to the gaps between the panels (esp. visible in wobbly scrolling text), consider rendering extra (invisible) columns for the gaps that won't be then sent to the displays (1 pixel column per panel gap might just do it) as an optional display mode. It should improve appearance of the display as one contiguous screen as opposed to individual panels (the eye will fill the blanks, esp. from the distance)

[@Shockabuku]

Love it! Another thing you could get it to do is mimic a train platform departure board.

[@magickmarck]

Mind the gap

[@Victoare]

Awesome :) That wall needs 3 times the displays (or whatever the amount to match the megadrones width) :D That would be looooooong :D Also a tip: In the render matrix you may introduce a virtual pixel for the gaps between the panels to smooth out the scrolling.

[@GadgetoidUK]

Not me thinking 25 Cosmic Unicorns in a 5x5 grid would accommodate a gameboy-ish resolution screen 🤔 Still kinda amazed this works, with the USB hub spaghetti. Chris just… went to town with the examples 😂 epic work by all involved.

[@Chris_Riggs]

Send them over and I'm sure we can make it happen 😁

[@TimsRetroCorner]

You should totally add a Cylon mode.... Awesome project. Awesome channel. Awesome!

[@the_washingmachine1295]

I've already been to the museum this year, but what can I say, I'm definitely going to go there again! Drinking game: drink a shot for every time Sam says "pong"

[@aftertheendtimes]

Love your energy and Creativity dear Sam,....Love Cheers 😄🥰

[@shavono8402]

Congrats to Sam's dad on beating SPAAAAACE INVADERS!

[@rendamatt]

Love your idea! I love how you integrated different notes into the game, but I think you could make it even more interesting if it wasn't just random notes. You guys should make each color tile on breakout the same note, and then make 8 colors. That way it can play random melody patterns. Also on snake, each of the 10 individual column displays could be a different note, starting from any octave as a configurable note and then going up 10 semitones, one for each new panel. Or even randomly assign a few notes of different chords in the same scale to each of the 10 panels so it plays something musical and unique each game. Try it!

[@mickwhite1824]

What!!! No Looong Doooom? That's a bit of a lack! :)

[@benweber8081]

Long Pong would fit the Dinosaur Game from Chrome perfectly with its wide resolution.

[@IdealIdeas100]

Lol with the bad apple. Definitely a man of culture.

[@leetshi927]

Gyro Gearloose is back !

[@RuthlessMojo]

The best part of this video was the Monty Python and the Holy Grail reference. Tim the Enchanter warns King Arthur and his knights of the round table that their is a killer rabbit guarding a cave they seek passage through. After the knights and Arthur mock him for being scared of a rabbit, Tim warns: “ “That’s no ordinary rabbit. That’s the most foul, cruel, and bad tempered rodent you ever set eyes on.” He goes on to say: “He’s got huge sharp pointy teeth (he put his hand in front of his head making a biting motion with his fingers), he can leap about…Look at the BONES !” Such a great movie and that scene in particular always has me rolling on the floor laughing. Great to see Sam is a connoisseur.

[@simonabunker]

Great project! This is begging you be extended sideways even more in the future!

[@TheBiggerburger]

Thats excellent, top job!!!

[@brainbuginfestation8548]

Don't tell Techmoan about this! ;-)

[@phillipminer3554]

This is my favorite project of yours since the Furby piano. Looooooong Poooooooong ™️

[@GadgetUK164]

Just fantastic - so cool!

[@barcodenosebleed5485]

Codely endowed. Love it.

[@buckstarchaser2376]

5:48 Pong, a horizontal game, has been stretched to incredible lengths... but only in the horizontal dimension. In comes a videographer locked into the vertical dimension to record it. One of natures weirdest encounters.

[@soniclab-cnc]

Tabletop enclosure would be sick

[@ozzelot3349]

The Long Pong is strong! A game that can't go wrong.

[@dcallan812]

just needs a bong, for the pong

[@ozzelot3349]

@@dcallan812 Also a gong (but don't hit it with a prong)

[@magickmarck]

get it on, sing a song

[@richards7909]

Now it’s in its new home, loooooong poooooong needs to be looooooonger poooooong! Brilliant project!

[@MrPruske]

this is the first place i'll visit when i am near

[@gcl2783]

This KZbin channel is not obsolete.

[@lebocharp]

wish to visit this museum one day! dat Bad Apple mention!

[@JV-pu8kx]

You could try turning it vertical and do Breakout or Space Invaders. Or an audio graphic analyzer.

[@JV-pu8kx]

Okay. I wrote this before I saw that you did do these. But you also did Snake! 👏 🆒️ Again, try a vertical orientation.

[@digitaldobbie]

I wonder if it is possible to make a DAW from a raspberry pi?

[@zax71]

Isn’t that a software thing, like LMMS. Maybe you’re thinking of a MIDI interface or audio interface?

[@digitaldobbie]

I was thinking of a DAW that’s why I typed it. Thank you for your comment though 🙂

[@SproutyPottedPlant]

Watch out Techmoan doesn’t pinch it 😅👍

[@infn8loopmusic]

Never cease to be amazed at your inventions dude. Absolutely bonkers 😂🤘👽👍🛸

[@thewhitefalcon8539]

I hope one day I'll visit the museum.

[@jeanbonnefoy1377]

Maybe in order to improve the general look, swap the regular straight usb cables for right angle connector ones?

[@stevehobson3681]

I would have this instead of a games console. It may just be the most awesome thing I've seen ❤

[@jurjenbos228]

If I lived in your neighbourhood, I would have helped as much as I could! But I will come to your museum, even if I have to come to the UK just for that.

[@MrAsBBB]

If you wind the clock back, you guys would be putting a man on the moon. Love it…..

[@KeritechElectronics]

Wake up Sam - the Matrix has you... Mighty cool creation! So, that's why all these Raspberries vanished, eh? :D Breakout, I knew that name by the name of Arkanoid and loved it back in my PC XT gaming days :).

[@Fenix_the_12]

That's amazing, but can it run DOOM?

[@McTroyd]

I, too, am clearly on the wrong side of the Atlantic. I will visit your museum one day, even if I have to swim for it. 😅👍

[@ToyKeeper]

*Village kid:* Mista Sam, Mista Sam, why is your pong so long? *Sam:* Well Timmy, pull up a chair and let me tell you a story about unicorns...

[@walterpark8824]

I haven't even finished watching yet, and this already gets 3 thumbs up. So creative!! ...so long for now.

[@Simple_But_Expensive]

Just a suggestion: I would love to see a game called Spacewar! on it. Spacewar! Would be appropriate for your museum, since it was originally created in 1962 by MIT computer lab research assistants to run on a PDP-1, and is often referred to as the first video game in history. Since it was open source, it was handed off to other students who improved on it over the years. Later on computers had developed to the point that it became the first coin op arcade console game in history. I first saw a console version in 1972 in a Sears store in Reno, Nevada (I was 12 years old). I had never seen an arcade console (or any video game). My brother and I played for about 1/2 hour on a single quarter. I don’t know if it was true, but I was told years later by a lady who worked there that they were play testing the console, and my brother and I were being filmed through the one way mirror on the wall behind us. The latest version I know about was written in java somewhere around 2012. That version was for internet play, but it would be pretty easy to adapt it to work on your controllers. I retired as an instrument tech, so although I can program a PLC, I know as much about computer programming as you do so I can’t do it, but your guy should be able to handle it.

[@seedmole]

now point that camera at the long pong screen for some long video feedback

[@fonesrphunny7242]

I wanna visit you with my mum. She did go on holidays in the UK before and she does play keyboard. "Look mum, Look mum no computer"