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Make it small

You might want to shrink

Monski pong down so it's more

compact. This figure shows the

Monski pong circuit on a bread-

board shield. This is the same

circuit as the one in Figure 2-6,

just on a different breadboard

so it can fit in a project box.

All boxed up

Kitchen storage containers

make excellent project boxes.

Here’s the Monski pong con-

troller with Monski attached.

Finishing Touches: Tidy it up, box it up

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choose Any Device. The computer will search for devices,

and will find one called BlueRadios-COM0-1. If you have

no other Bluetooth devices nearby, it will be the only one.

Choose this device, and when asked for a passkey, enter

default. A connection will be established, and you’ll be told

that there are no selected services on this device. That’s

okay. Continue until you can quit the Assistant.

In Windows, the process differs, depending on the

Bluetooth radio you have installed. There are several

different Bluetooth radios available for Windows machines,

and each one has a slightly different user interface. XP

Service Pack 2 introduced a unified configuration interface

for Bluetooth, but some older radios still use the vendor-

specific configuration tools. The user manual for your ...