{"id":11964,"date":"2015-02-09T11:28:39","date_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11964"},"modified":"2015-02-09T11:28:39","modified_gmt":"2015-02-09T11:28:39","slug":"seven-segment-raspberry-pi-ping-pong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11964","title":{"rendered":"Seven segment Raspberry Pi Ping-Pong"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fritzing.org\/media\/CACHE\/images\/fritzing-repo\/projects\/p\/ping-pong-v2-with-raspberry-pi-bapi-2-model-b\/images\/ping-pongv2\/2dae8f41915e2f11f2993500248763af.jpg?resize=560%2C210\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p>JCR Matos has created a circuit layout in Fritzing for a ping-pong game that you can reproduce for a bit of fun with your Pi. You need several components, including driver chips for the seven-segment displays. He&#8217;s included all the code you need to run the game and published it over at Fritzing. <a href=\"http:\/\/fritzing.org\/projects\/ping-pong-v2-with-raspberry-pi-bapi-2-model-b\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JCR Matos has created a circuit layout in Fritzing for a ping-pong game that you can reproduce for a bit of fun with your Pi. You need several components, including driver chips for the seven-segment displays. He&#8217;s included all the&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11964\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[54,21,50,39,51],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessories","category-games","category-making","category-programming","category-tutorials"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Seven segment Raspberry Pi Ping-Pong - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=11964\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Seven segment Raspberry Pi Ping-Pong - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"JCR Matos has created a circuit layout in Fritzing for a ping-pong game that you can reproduce for a bit of fun with your Pi. 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