A wise TABLE FOR gamers

When makers take to designing furniture for their own home, the results are spectacular. For their senior style project, [Phillip Murphy] as well as his teammates set about building a wise table from the ground up. Oh, as well as you can likewise utilize it to play games, demonstrated in the video below.

The table utilizes 512 WS2812 pixels in a 32 x 16 array which has sufficient resolution to play a choice of integrated games — Go, 2-player Tetris, as well as Tron light cycle battle — in addition to some other features like a dancing bird celebration mode — since what’s the point of having a wise table if it can’t likewise double as rave lighting?

A C2000-family microcontroller on a custom board is the brains, as well as is managed by an Android app via Bluetooth RN-42 modules. The table frame was designed in Sketchup, laser-cut, as well as painstakingly stained. [Murphy] as well as business utilized aluminum ducting tape in each of the ‘pixels’, as well as the table’s frame really develops the pixel grid. inspect out the overview as well as a few of the games in action after the break.

We’ve featured likewise remarkable tables in the past, a few of which are touch-sensitive, inspect ’em out!