Jezzball

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TV Jezzball with dangling mouse, created by Cornell ECE476 students Arthur Zhang and Yewen Ying, is a hot, new, cool, retro look back to when times were simpler, computers were slower, and TV’s were black and white.

Overview

From the beginning, because of our interest in computer games, we wanted to make a fun game that we could play on the television. However, each time we came up with a seemingly great idea, we checked the past final projects and found that it has already been done. Idea after idea was shot down, until finally, after many hours of discussion, we finally came up with the idea of Jezzball. We checked through most of the past final project web pages and did not find any other people who had done this project before. It was perfect! (For information regarding what the game Jezzball is, just use Google to search “jezzball” and plenty of information will come up with respect to the classic game and new variations that have resulted from it).

We used two MCU’s: one to interface with the mouse and one to generate the television signals. The two MCU’s communicated via SPI (Serial Peripheral Interface). Our final version is very similar to classic Jezzball but has slight modifications that we felt made the game more playable and was more reasonable to implement.