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USB Disco Dance Floor
pi42 writes "Some MIT students built this USB controlled disco dance floor for their dorm lounge. It was built in a week, has 1536 LEDs, 20,000 hand-soldered connections, and is capable of displaying 12-bit color. Check out videos and photos." You can even send the floor an email, though it might not write back.
that is really awesome, they should sell some of those things :-D I would love one of those in my house with some touch sensors too so the floor can light up when I walk on it!
Anyone else starting to think on DDR with a big dancefloor instead of a tiny dancemat? With all thoose touch sensors...
Any bets on how long until a Tetris clone is implemented for this?
Apparently the panels also have pressure sensors on them -- that's so cool. It sounds they have the hardware they need for an awesome game of massively-multiplayer Twister or Mosh Mosh Revolution. Variants of pinball, pong, or arkanoid could also be fun, with virtual paddles drawn wherever there were two nearby pressure points (i.e. feet).
about MIT students partying, or some variation on that theme
except theirs cost about 30 grand for this size. This cost $2500.
and while MIT students are building a dance floor they'll never use, USC students are making good use of their non-USB-controlled beds with their model girlfriends. End discussion.
So your friend putting up a bunch of xmas light strings in shapes with different timers is more impressive than a usb controlled _programmable_ disco floor with 20k hand soldered connections?
No. It isn't.
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they had chicks to dance with...
DON'T PANIC
They go for Neo though, didn't they? Almost every girl I know like "The Matrix" movie because of him.
They go for 'Movie Star, Keanu Reeves', not, 'Hacker, Neo'.
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