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MIT Tetris Hack: Source Code Released

Posted by Soulskill on from the make-your-town-hall-much-more-entertaining dept.

An anonymous reader writes "MIT's The Tech published an article with technical details behind the Tetris hack they did on the Green Building earlier this year. The article includes photographs of the LED modules, as well as a link to some of the source code used in the hack. The hackers have released some of the source code on GitHub, and are looking for people to contribute code that could run on the system."

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  1. Not the first by Anaerin · · Score: 4, Informative

    Blinkenlights did it first, and at higher resolution, and once they'd finished doing it in black and white, they went to Paris and did it again, in colour. Both systems had Tetris that was playable by phone, and would also display messages sent via SMS to the display. Oh, and both those projects were also open-source. The only interesting part of this is the wireless connectivity in the MIT system.

  2. Re:Hack hack hack? by arth1 · · Score: 3, Informative

    The article is rubbish, or at least its definition of "hack" is.

    That's ignorance speaking. A "hack" is a MIT prank or tomfoolery, a tradition going back to the late 1800s.