Pong Game Controlled by Accelerometer

Overview

AcceLED Pong is the term used to describe the project where the ping pong-like game runs on an Atmel ATmega32 AVR microcontroller.

Explanation

The control of the game comes by tilting the board left to right to move the paddle. The control of red and greens LED matrix and the processing of data are made possible by connecting the ADXL203 to the Atmel ATmega32 chip. The project came from the accelerometer from Analog Device that is capable of 2-axis movement as it controls the movement of the paddle.

ATmega32 is used for the purpose of writing the code which is going to be compiled and installed with the AVR-GCC/AVRDUDE toolchain. An option of using an Arduino is also possible depending on the needs. The design of the hardware may also be used with other projects such as LED spectrum analyzer with an 8x8 red/green LED matrix. It uses an mp3 player called XMMS which does a fast-fourier transform and sends the computed values to the microcontroller. The microcontroller on the analyzer has an FTDI chip for converting USB to RS232.