December 14, 2011

FPGA Breakout Game played by moving your Hands - HAND BREAKING BRICKS

Remember the game Breakout? These days with game controls like the Kinect who wants to use the old style joysticks anymore?  ECE 5760 students Meng-Ling (Maxwell) Liu, Thu-Thao Nguyen and Yang Yang designed a game that they call HAND BREAKING BRICKS. They are using an FPGA to display the game on the monitor while it is also monitoring a Terasic CCD module which allows the game to “see” the location

XBOX 360 Aquarium

Remember the geeky computer aquariums we featured about 5 years ago? Instead of using a computer case this XBOX 360 Aquarium uses a gaming console case. Thankfully the donor XBOX was a not working, if you think the window cut looks great that is because it was cut out using a waterjet. “The tank itself is made of glass, and is approximately 6″ long, 8″ tall, and 2.5″ wide.  Water