May 9 2008Ridiculous Beer Pong Table Is Crazy, Nuts
Four couch burning engineers at WVU recently made a ridiculous beer pong table. And when I say ridiculous, I mean it's almost as cool as mine, which is two stools and my roommate's closet door. I recommend you let the video load and then skip to 2:15 to see the finished product. The first part is just still shots of the construction and wiring (which is worth watching if you're into that sort of thing). The table has tons of LEDs which move to the music playing, a nice WVU logo in the middle, and the coolest part -- swirling ball washers built into the table! I thought that was impressive. The kids are currently taking orders if you want something similar, you just tell them what you have in mind and how much you want to spend. But be warned -- this one cost over $1,000 to build and took over 400 hours to complete. Which is funny because at the beginning of the video it says that they only consumed 6 cases of beer during the project. 6 cases? I won't even drive a nail into the wall or mow the lawn without crushing at least 7 cases. Pussies. Oh shit WVU, you just got burned!
Seriously though, great job guys.
Thanks Shaina, lets take a trip up to Morgantown sometime and show them how its really done
Reader Comments
1. jmoney - May 9, 2008 1:10 PM
pff, my friends and I built a much better table this year - complete with a LAZY RIVER that goes all the way around the table, water filtration system, led lights, and it's hooked up to a computer program that has some AI and will text people when they're up on the table to come play. maybe i should submit some pics or something
2. Jeezy - May 9, 2008 1:51 PM
If you're not joking, definitely put some pictures up somewhere!
3. Scott - May 9, 2008 1:55 PM
Maybe you should.....
4. ata - May 9, 2008 1:55 PM
yah this looked pretty lame all in all
5. daguz - May 9, 2008 1:56 PM
Stupid kids... 400 hours? They must have been drunk the whole time. Oh 6 cases over 400 hours, they are serious lightweights.
Plus they spent 1000$ ... man I could see $100. but x10.... really stupid kids. When I saw it I thought maybe they had some virtual wii like table.... But this is lame.
6. Math Campbell - May 9, 2008 1:59 PM
Cool table, but I felt I had to comment on the absolutely ruined video.
Why is it ruined? What the hell was that constant "music" in the background? Tuneless shite!
So you spend all that time making a Ping Pong table that lights up to your music. Then you put on shit.
Sad, just sad.
7. Amy - May 9, 2008 2:04 PM
Uh..Math, I think the horrible music was being played FROM the table itself.
Seriously, what a waste of money, time, brain matter and, well, beer. And it's not ping pong for chrissake. I spent way too many disappointing evenings in college watching my date toss balls into a cup of beer while I sat on the sofa waiting to be driven home not to know the difference.
Ah, college, truly the best years of our lives.
8. lem - May 9, 2008 2:47 PM
and you know what the truly unbelieveable thing about this is? that guys (sorry to generalize, but in my experience it's been mostly guys) CONTINUE to play beer pong even after the graduate from college. freshman year, yes, sophomore year, maybe... but an electrical engineer that still feels compelled to invest time and energy into a project so that he can play beer pong on a cool table REALLY blows my mind.
9. jmoney - May 9, 2008 3:23 PM
I took a quick pic of my table just to give an idea and posted it here:
http://img152.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dsc0155cu0.jpg
it's a little messy right now and stuff's kinda thrown about, but I was feeling too lazy to do anything about that. Anyway, the leds cycle through different colors, and we have that red EL-wire around different parts of the table and it's all sound-reactive
10. lem - May 9, 2008 3:26 PM
whoa, jmoney, that thing looks like it'll short circuit the second any beer hits the table.
11. none - May 9, 2008 4:00 PM
dude, that table by jmoney scares the shit out of me.. i wouldn't want to be touching anything wet around that, not even the beer itself.
12. bacon - May 9, 2008 4:30 PM
#7, let me get this correct, you waited patiently waited for your ride to get drunk enough to drive you home?
A project this complex and unique can seriously be added to their resume/CV. Though this may seem useless and a bit juvenile, it took a whole lot of intelligence to put this thing together.
13. Jazzman - May 9, 2008 4:33 PM
and that goes to prove it... engineers are nerds... noticed you didn't see one gurl in the clip...
Jazzman
Lockheed Martin Systems Engineer!!!
14. squash - May 9, 2008 4:37 PM
jesus, you people are hard to please. i think the table's bitchin!
15. Dave - May 9, 2008 5:36 PM
That table is awesome... I just have one question, how are you supposed to experience its awesomeness while playing a game?
Don't you need the lights on? I feel you're hand-eye coordination is probably already going while playing, but then to have to play in the dark, that would suck
16. jmoney - May 9, 2008 6:44 PM
haha relax people, we safe it up before we play on it -- in the picture I'm in the middle of some unfinished rewiring
17. ~zeus~ - May 11, 2008 2:35 AM
The best beer pong table ever is Microsoft Surface :P