MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris

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Post by emarion » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 7:57 PM UTC

MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris
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Re: MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris

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Post by agwa » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 8:35 PM UTC

This was done at Brown in 2000 (albeit in monochrome):

http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/

Woz even showed up to play it:

http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/photos/woz_play.jpg

Re: MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris

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Post by aw3c2 » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 8:43 PM UTC

agwa wrote: post #2

This was done at Brown in 2000 (albeit in monochrome): http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/ Woz even showed up to play it: http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/photos/woz_play.jpg

Also http://blinkenlights.net/

Re: MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 8:46 PM UTC

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Post by ilamont » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 8:48 PM UTC

MIT Hack page, with photos:

http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/2012/tetris/

Re: MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris

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Post by soup10 » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 9:09 PM UTC

Is there any video of this? The colored lighting is really cool.

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Post by kmccarth » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 9:11 PM UTC

soup10 wrote: post #6

Is there any video of this? The colored lighting is really cool.

yup, just found it on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAIPUGO1iko

Re: MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris

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Post by svdree » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 9:26 PM UTC

agwa wrote: post #2

This was done at Brown in 2000 (albeit in monochrome): http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/ Woz even showed up to play it: http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/photos/woz_play.jpg

Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands) did it in 1995 ;-)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwNQqePk8Kg

Re: MIT Completes "Holy Grail of Hacks," Turns Green Building into a Game of Tetris

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Post by artursapek » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 9:31 PM UTC

agwa wrote: post #2

This was done at Brown in 2000 (albeit in monochrome): http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/ Woz even showed up to play it: http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/photos/woz_play.jpg

Wow. I'm 2 blocks from that building atm. This is great.

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Post by rje » Sat, Apr 21, 2012, 9:39 PM UTC

agwa wrote: post #2

This was done at Brown in 2000 (albeit in monochrome): http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/ Woz even showed up to play it: http://techhouse.brown.edu/bastille/photos/woz_play.jpg

I was part of the team that worked on this way back in the day, and it was a blast. It was a bunch of soldering, running wires, trying to debug all the issues, etc. And then everything came together and it just worked.

Woz showing up was the icing on the cake, and it was definitely one of the highlights of my college career.