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USB Disco Dance Floor

Posted by timothy on from the know-how-to-party dept.

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.

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  1. DDR by Ailure · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Anyone else starting to think on DDR with a big dancefloor instead of a tiny dancemat? With all thoose touch sensors...

  2. Tetris (and other ideas) by FleaPlus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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).

  3. Re:Neo? by Adrilla · · Score: 5, Insightful

    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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    "Plans are for fools! Oglethorpe, the plutonian (Aqua Teen Hunger Force)