THE most significant very HEXAGON fan

For those who haven’t addicted themselves to very Hexagon yet, it’s pretty… addicting, to say the least. typically this 80’s arcade-style game would run in a browser but some of the people at Club de Jaqueo in Buenos Aires chose to cram all of that into an Arduino. They didn’t stop there, though, and thought that it would work best with a POV display.

To navigate the elaborate maze of blending a POV display with a fast-paced game like this, the group looked to the trusty Arduino Micro. After some disappointment in the original idea, they realized that the game is perfectly suited for a POV display because it’s almost circular. The POV shouldn’t take up too much of the processing power of the Arduino, so many of the clock cycles can be used for playing the game. They couldn’t keep the original name anymore due to the lack of hexagon shape (and presumably copyrights and other legal hurdles), but the style of the original is well-preserved.

The group demonstrated their setup this past weekend, and the results are outstanding judging by the video below. They’ve also released their source code and schematics as well, in case you have an old fan (or maybe even a bicycle?) lying around that is just begging to be turned into a mini-arcade game.