Schlagwort: Air Hockey

  • This small scorekeeping air hockey game brings the arcade classic to your tabletop

    This small scorekeeping air hockey game brings the arcade classic to your tabletop

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    Go to any arcade and the air hockey table will probably be one of the most popular games they have. Everyone loves air hockey, but a lot of people don’t want to go to an arcade just to play. If you fall into that category, then you can follow LloydB’s Instructables guide to make your own scorekeeping air hockey table.

    The key to air hockey is right there in the name: air. All of those little holes in the table’s surface allow air flow. That creates an air cushion for the puck and paddles to float on, reducing friction and enabling knuckle-shattering gameplay. For that to work, the table needs something pushing at least as much air as escapes through the holes. This table isn’t very big, so it doesn’t need a high volume of air. Three 12V PC fans are enough. They push air into a chamber beneath the hole-filled top board. Power for the fans comes from a battery holder with 8 AA batteries.

    Those batteries also power the Arduino UNO Rev3 that handles the scorekeeping, which is the other important part of air hockey. Each goal chute has a laser break-beam sensor to detect when the puck comes shooting in. The Arduino then updates the scores shown on a 16×2 LCD screen. The Arduino will also emit a tone through a buzzer. That increases in pitch with each point, so players get audible cues as the game progresses. 

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVPHKXhAPF4?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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  • This homemade table puts a soccer spin on air hockey

    This homemade table puts a soccer spin on air hockey

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    Arduino Team — March 2nd, 2022

    The classic tabletop game of air hockey has existed in its current form for decades, and while it can be fun initially, the lack of exciting components can make it dull after a while. So, in order to exercise his creative and technical skills, Silas Hansen decided to create his own spin on the game by making an air football table. His project was designed and built from scratch with some very innovative fabrication techniques.

    The base of the air football table was crafted by laser cutting various pieces of MDF board into the side panels and the second layer of the top. To ensure smoothness, the top layer was cut from a solid panel of acrylic that also had a series of holes for air to pass through. Lastly, the corner supports, mounts, and game pieces were 3D-printed.

    For scorekeeping, each end of the table was fitted with a single IR line tracking sensor which sends a pulse to the Arduino Uno whenever the puck passes underneath. In response, the WS2812B strips surrounding the table light up in the winner’s color and the newly updated score is sent via UART to an attached Nextion 4.3” TFT screen. All of the electronics can be powered off by pressing a red push button, although the large fan at the base must be physically disconnected from its batteries. 

    For more details on the project, you can check out Hansen’s Arduino Project Hub write-up or see it in action below!

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  • Here’s a low-cost air hockey table you can make yourself

    Here’s a low-cost air hockey table you can make yourself

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    Here’s a low-cost air hockey table you can make yourself

    Arduino Team — August 26th, 2019

    If you’d like to bring the air hockey arcade experience home with you, then look no further than this project by Kousheek Chakraborty and Satya Schiavina, or ‘Technovation.’ 

    Cleverly, the scaled-down game table uses a household vacuum cleaner blower attachment to provide air pressure, sending little jets of air through a grid of laser-cut holes on the acrylic playing surface.

    LED lights embedded in the sides add a bit more excitement to the build, and points are tallied with an Arduino Uno-based LCD score display. A pair of buttons are used to register a points for either player, hopefully eliminating arguments over who is ahead as the game progresses!

    [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLU8pFqxcTU?feature=oembed&w=500&h=281]

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