I’ve always wanted to make my own wrist watch, but I had never gotten around to doing it. I love the Buro Vormkrijgers Pong Clock, but still didn’t build anything. Then after I ran in to David Forbes at the 2006 Maker Faire and got to see his amazing Nixie-tube watch* first-hand, the gears in my head started turning. I found a neat display in a catalog that was about the right size, and ordered it on a whim. I hooked up the screen to a computer, and it was so cool looking I knew that I had to make a Pong Watch!
The basic idea - from Buro Vormkrijgers - is genius: each minute the right side scores a point, and each hour the left side scores a point. The effect is that the score is the time.
Follow the progress on my Build Log, above, or just watch the movie clips.
my email address is john atxmaushammerxdot com
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Homemade Pong Watch