[Niklas Roy] sent in a job he just completed called PING! Augmented Pixel. At very first glimpse the entire develop is just a ordinary jane vintage video game stuffed into an ATmega8 however looks can be deceiving. The video game is really an augmented truth gadget that inserts a pixel into a video feed. The bouncing pixel can be manipulated with a video camera – push the pixel as well as it goes off in one more direction.
The job runs on an ATmega8 clocked at 16 MHz, as well as reads the video feed with the assist of an LM1881 sync separator. There’s no schematics, however he thankfully included some code for his project. whatever is set up for buddy video, however this might be quickly adapted for NTSC. any type of Hack A Day visitors want to take up the difficulty of building this from just a description?
[Niklas] states there’s no reason this couldn’t have been done by Atari in the late seventies. There were economic reasons for not putting out a video video camera controller, of course, as well as the R&D department may have been as well hectic playing Breakout with their eyebrows.
Check out the demo of the augmented pixel after the break.