Working progress, hope you enjoy :)

Something to say about this - I get that you will be implementing a system to lose lives later, but the ball is moving too fast to accurately hit the ball. Either make the board a lot bigger or slow down the ball so the player can correctly react. I hope to see some good work on this project though!

Good start.
The makebricks() can be written in less lines:

function makebricks()
	brick={x=60,y=30,w=8,h=4}
	bricks={}
	for r=1, 5 do
		for c=1, r%2==0 and 10 or 11 do
			add(bricks,{x=r%2==0 and 9+(c-1)*11 or 5+(c-1)*11, y=8+(r-1)*7, w=brick.w, h=brick.h})
		end
	end
end