Interactive Beer Pong (Beirut) Table

Step 2 First Make the Board

The best part about these projects for me is using the power tools so thats why I put building the board fist. Go to home depot/lowes and get yourself a nice thick 3/4" piece of ply. I used sanded cabinet plywood from home depot and just had it cut there into 3'x8' and then cut in half for ease of transportation.

There are a specific type of cups best suited for Pong called Solo cups (the red of blue ones). The base of these cups are have a 2.5" diameter. Make a circle template out of cardboard with a diameter of 2.75", cut cleanly with a boxcutter. Use the template to sketch out 6 circles on your 3'x4' piece of plywood as shown below. Also sketch out a 5" in from both ends of the width and 21" deep as shown by the white below.

Now first drill a hole in each of 6 circles sketched out with a 1/4" drill bit. Then use a jig saw to carefully cut out each of the circles from the board. Be careful to keep the jigsaw completely perpendicular to the board to ensure that your cuts are not angled. You should pop out circles like the one shown below. Then jigsaw out the rectangular 21"x26" piece as shown below. 

Note: this is for a 6 cup pong game with spaced out cups. If you like to keep your cups close to together (or touching) then please measure out desired locations for cups. I have left a big lip behind the cups in case players would like to play a 10 cup game.