Jackson Jewett
For my Introduction to Making class at MIT, my teammates and I wanted to build a physical game we could play against a robot. We built a game like Pong, where you use paddles to try to knock a ball past the computer's "goal." I have included a vide

Analog Pong

For my Introduction to Making class at MIT, my teammates and I wanted to build a physical game we could play against a robot. We built a game like Pong, where you use paddles to try to knock a ball past the computer's "goal." I have included a vide

For my Introduction to Making class at MIT, my teammates and I wanted to build a physical game we could play against a robot. We built a game like Pong, where you use paddles to try to knock a ball past the computer's "goal."

I have included a video towards the bottom of this page.

We set up two arrays of infrared sensors underneath a pane of laser-cut acrylic that could sense the ball's trajectory and move the stepper motor to try to keep the ball in play.

We set up two arrays of infrared sensors underneath a pane of laser-cut acrylic that could sense the ball's trajectory and move the stepper motor to try to keep the ball in play.

Physical Pong

I like to try to build the things I design. On paper, this was a simple project, but to build a machine that can actually sense and react in real time turned out to be much more difficult than we had anticipated. I like to take things out of our computer models and into the real world, whenever possible. 

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