{"id":13426,"date":"2015-09-24T12:28:28","date_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13426"},"modified":"2015-09-24T12:28:28","modified_gmt":"2015-09-24T11:28:28","slug":"raspberry-pi-pong-game-uses-crane-controllers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13426","title":{"rendered":"Raspberry Pi pong game uses crane controllers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13427\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote.jpg?resize=560%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote\" width=\"560\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote.jpg?w=800&amp;ssl=1 800w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote.jpg?resize=300%2C161&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote.jpg?resize=560%2C300&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote.jpg?resize=260%2C139&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/playing-pong-with-a-crane-remote.jpg?resize=160%2C86&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a nice bit of silliness for you. A German crane manufacturer asked &#8220;hwhardsoft&#8221; to create a game that used the company&#8217;s crane controllers. So, that&#8217;s what they did &#8211; the created a Pong game using Python and then adapted the control boards for use with the Pi. They added an\u00a0ATMEGA chip to do the analog to digital conversion and voila, Crane Pong!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackaday.com\/2015\/09\/20\/playing-pong-with-construction-crane-controllers\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thanks to Hackaday for this one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Playing pong with crane remotes\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j92sWwhzWk0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a nice bit of silliness for you. 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