PongBot

PongBot is a nodebot to augment your Table Tennis experience, developed at Quiet Light Communications. PongBot has been tested on the Intel Edison prototyping platform.

Want to level up your pong?

Set up your Edison

• Read Intel’s Getting Started guide (I’m on a Mac, but the instructions for other platforms are linked within.)
• Update your Edison, following Intel’s instructions
• run configure_edison --setup
• edit the opkg conf to add repositories for the necessary software
• use opkg to install git, sqlite3

Install the pongbot software

• run git clone git://github.com/jacobroufa/pongbot.git
• run npm install

Get your hardware ready

• Install your buttons to pins 7 and 8
• Load up http://edison.local:8888 on your tablet

LET ‘ER RIP!

TODO

• add grunt
• add tests
• add graceful database schema updates
• build out player controller
• build front end
• play some pong

Future version goals

• doubles mode
• tournament mode
• player handicaps
• stats discovery
• bracketing based on stats

License

Copyright (c) 2015 Jacob Roufa jacob.roufa@gmail.com Licensed under the MIT license.