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MIT Hack Turns the Green Building Into a Giant Game of Tetris

Posted by timothy on from the these-kids-never-go-to-class dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MIT hackers have turned the Green Building, the tallest building in Cambridge, into a giant, playable, full color game of Tetris. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery, "MIT hackers have long considered 'Tetris on the Green Building' to be the Holy Grail of hacks.""

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  1. Awesome by Flipstylee · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That is all.

    1. Re:Awesome by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      If my display had that many stuck pixels, I'd return it.

    2. Re:Awesome by Khyber · · Score: 3, Informative

      Either LED systems, or they used Pentron 3-color adjustable lighting.

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    3. Re:Awesome by Technician · · Score: 4, Informative

      Follow the links for more info. Strings of Christmas lights, relays, Linux, and Windows CE for the console. Due to the noisy relays, operation was restricted to after midnight when the building was vacant.

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  2. Already done before by jirikivaari · · Score: 3, Informative

    I don't know how many times this has been done, but in 2007 ago electrical engineers here in Oulu, Finland made the same thing, although with regular 7-storyish building. Here's the Finnish news.

    1. Re:Already done before by FlashBuster3000 · · Score: 4, Informative

      True... The german Chaos Computer Club has been doing this long time ago :)

      Pong 2001:

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Blinkenlights

    2. Re:Already done before by Cochonou · · Score: 5, Informative

      There were also Blinkenlights in Berlin (2001) and more to the point, ARCADE in Paris (2002). Both were made by Chaos Computer Club.
      Anyway, whatever the prior art was, it is always a very thrilling development.

    3. Re:Already done before by jeisner · · Score: 2

      The earliest one I know of was in April 2000 on the 14-story science library at Brown University. Info & videos here:
      http://bastilleweb.techhouse.org/
      I remember the press coverage at the time. Steve Wozniak flew in from CA to play.

  3. Woz by skipkent · · Score: 2

    Maybe Woz will show up to play this one too.

  4. Uhm, not even old news by KZigurs · · Score: 2

    Wasn't this already done like 4 years ago? Okay, this time they managed to link up tetris, not just controlled animation (IIRC), but still...

  5. As I've posted somewhere elese by effigiem · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'll give you the link I gave on some other site that hosted that: They still have a lot of functionality missing to get to the level of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGU8dlvOPUY

  6. Re:No longer impressed by things like this... by Aguazul2 · · Score: 2

    >> Yeah, just like the first moon landing. Ho hum.

    More like the sixth moon landing.

  7. Re: And by Delft in 1995 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Students of Delft University of Technolgy did this in 1995, at the 22-story EWI building. The lamps could also be controlled over internet.

    I found a photo here:
    http://retro.nrc.nl/W2/Nieuws/1998/02/27/Med/06.html

  8. Amazing by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I just watched the video... I didn't know it was possible to be so bad at Tetris.

    1. Re:Amazing by roman_mir · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Yeah, they are far away from this

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  9. They may be really good at programming things... by coastal984 · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...but they really suck at playing Tetris.

  10. The Tetris Company LLC does not approve by amoeba1911 · · Score: 3

    watch out, The Tetris Company LLC is going to sue them for trademark violation...

  11. Re:No longer impressed by things like this... by Alien+Being · · Score: 3, Funny

    No, this is Cambridge. Boston sucks for entirely different reasons.

  12. Re:Awesome, but Brown did it first in 2000 by Tablizer · · Score: 2

    Vid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkIRWoo9qrU

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