Tennis-for-Two

This Tennis for Two recreation was developed for A Whole Different Ball Game: Playing Through 60 Years of Sports Video Games at Museum of the Moving Image. It is adapted from code and tutorial by Windell Oskay of Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories and benefited from a tutorial about digital-to-analog converters by Amanda Ghassei.

Hardware Requirements

• 1x Dumont 304-A oscilloscope
• 1x Arduino Nano
• 1x TLC7528 dual 8-bit DAC
• 2x 10K linear potentiometers
• 2x knobs
• 2x buttons
• 3x aluminum boxes
• 2x 10K resistors
• 3x banana plug cables
• 1x proto board
• 3x small cable glands
• 3x large cable glands

Future Improvements

• Evaluate higher resolution DACs. The current 8-bit DAC only creates a resolution of 256x256 "pixels". This would require more research, but the larger resolution of a higher bit DAC may simulate the original Tennis for Two with more fidelity.
• Simulate the clicking sound of relay switches with sound files.

Thanks

• Trammell Hudson @osresearch