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EVERYONE HAS PLAYED the classic arcade game Pong, the 1972 title helped kickstart gaming and is in the gaming hall of fame, but while you can still play it anywhere, a physical version could be a reality.
Three friends in Uruguay have created a version which shares some similarities to an air hockey table.
The concept table uses rectangle paddles and a square ball, but the puck is guided by magnets. Like the original arcade game, the game uses knobs to control the paddles and has an LED display for the score.
The team uses Arduino, which is used to create open-sourced hardware and software, to control everything that happens on the table.
The prototype took two years to complete as it was built in the group’s spare time. Since they didn’t have much experience in electronics or manufacturing, they referred to YouTube, Google and forums regularly while building it.
The group who built the concept Pong table is looking for funding to help turn this into a final product.
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Since their biased coverage of the Household Charge I’ll never trust them.
The only high standards RTE have relate to their pay………
Well said Kieran. Not that we needed evidence that RTE is a mouthpiece for government propaganda but we saw it on film last Saturday last! Talk about staged.
Several Fine Gaelers decide to walk through us the protesters? Followed by a TV crew? Do they think we’re stupid? They obviously do!
Their coverage throughout the campaign shows them to be a mouthpiece for government propaganda.
Prime Time Investigates had some very good programmes over the years, both informative and shocking at the same time. It will be sad to see it go after a dodgy run. I can’t watch any of those investigative journalism programmes on TV3.
Lots of face saving shuffling about – one retired early, one moved sideways – and what happened to the lousy reporter? Sounds like someone needs to do some investigative reporting on RTE with the culture of ‘we’re always right’ and the sense of entitlement to huge salaries. Time to privatise RTE – let the station sink or swim and do away with the licence fees – let commercial pressures rule!
Totally agree Niall! We can’t afford this hierarchy anymore! Let them live in the real world! I’d give them about six months!!
Was it hubris or ineptitude that allowed “Mission to Prey” and the fake tweet to be broadcast? It’s terrible that RTE’s reputation for excellent current affairs and documentaries could be left in tatters over 2 events that should never have made it to air.
So sorry to see Mr ‘fairness’ Ken O Shea leave his position in RTĖ. Isn’t it amazing how the wheel turns? Only gripe I have is that he and his cronies got away lightly. He still has a job although it is clear to all of us that he and the so called journalists were not up to standard. Face saving exercise……..
You can say that again :)
Anyone I have spoken to is of the opinion that RTE is a dinosaur of a broadcaster.
Especially with the mega choice of channels on satellite tv.
And what really bugs me is the fact that we still have to pay a tv licence.
I am additionally paying SKY TV approx. 45 Euro per month for their services.(which is fine).
Surely the buck stops with Noel Curren?
Unfortunately, it’s not just a question of two rogue broadcasts, as Mr Curran would have us believe. Remember, the only reasons that the Mission to Prey scandal was uncovered, were a combination of a courageous decision by Fr Reynolds to fight the allegation when he was being advised to lie down and die, a generous legal team, unexpected financial support, the incontavertible evidence of a negative paternity test and a good legal judgement. How many have been misrepresented in the past with no recourse?
t is blatantly obvious that RTE are consistently biased and prejudiced against the Catholic Church, and have been for many years. If they were concerned for the safety and welfare of our children in the area of child sexual abuse why do they persist in representing only those ( a very small minority) that have occurred in the Catholic Church rather than the real picture of child abuse in Ireland. I have yet to hear RTE report of the dangers of sexual abuse to children in their own home which stands over a staggering 90% of cases.Obviously RTE have an agenda against the Catholic Church and that is blatantly displayed in the derogatory and despicable way they treat the religion of the majority of the people in this country. While I deplore child sexual abuse in any sector of our community , however RTE staff wages are paid mainly by Catholic license holders, and we deserve to be treated with a less biased and prejudiced view on our Church.. Just because this man wore a Roman collar you decided to put the boot in as usual, just reflect on the fact if for whatever reason he had been unable to clear his name would you be apologizing now. How about doing a programme about all the good work he has done in Africa, (and other good priests here in Ireland also, like Fr. Brian McVerry and hundreds of other priests) sacrificing their lives for others, that might sound too charitable for RTE to do. You should be ashamed of your deplorable treatment of the Catholic Church, even if only in the interest of justice and decency.
It is blatantly obvious that RTE are consistently biased and prejudiced against the Catholic Church, and have been for many years. If they were concerned for the safety and welfare of our children in the area of child sexual abuse why do they persist in representing only those ( a very small minority) that have occurred in the Catholic Church rather than the real picture of child abuse in Ireland. I have yet to hear RTE report of the dangers of sexual abuse to children in their own home which stands over a staggering 90% of cases.Obviously RTE have an agenda against the Catholic Church and that is blatantly displayed in the derogatory and despicable way they treat the religion of the majority of the people in this country. While I deplore child sexual abuse in any sector of our community , however RTE staff wages are paid mainly by Catholic license holders, and we deserve to be treated with a less biased and prejudiced view on our Church.. Just because this man wore a Roman collar you decided to put the boot in as usual, just reflect on the fact if for whatever reason he had been unable to clear his name would you be apologizing now. How about doing a programme about all the good work he has done in Africa, (or even all our other good priests here in Ireland do, like Fr. Brian McVerry and hundreds of other priests) sacrificing their lives for others, that might sound too charitable for RTE to do. You should be ashamed of your deplorable treatment of the Catholic Church, even if only in the interest of justice and decency.
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