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MIT Tetris Hack: Source Code Released
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."
Making a game of Tetris is pretty simple. The cool part of this project is the wireless controlled LED bars they built and the design of those. I didn't see any specs for those, but that would be something interesting to see.
Please post on it on slashdot PLEAAASE
Just for the record guys, not /every/ piece of open source software deserves a story on slashdot, and this one in particular is one that doesn't serve many people a purpose. Hacks like these get made every week, and these guys at MIT didn't make anything particularly interesting.
Yeah and The Tetris Company is very litigious.
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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.
Seriously. Machine language input by punch cards or GTFO.
Right. No, your other right. No, the other other right.
It's a different meaning of the word.
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Okay, that's a relief. I thought as much. So how do you feel about Clojure?
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The article is rubbish, or at least its definition of "hack" is. What did they hack? The building? The led? The led drivers? The air? The power outlet? The aluminium bars? The occupants? The genator?
Note even "Windows" is not the correct answer IMHO.
I wonder why Quadrapassel hasn't already been taken out of GNOME Games.
Every image or video I've seen on this hack has 2 rooms with lights on: White lights, right edge just below the midpoint, separated horizontally by 1 and vertically by 2.
Other rooms occasionally are illuminated, but **always** these two are on. I know this is esoteric, but what's up with that? Anything special about those rooms/windows?
Haha I think the marketing department at MIT is out of control.
You are great guys, we already know. Take it easy with the press-release.
When are people going to realize that hacking is now a meaningless buzzword applied to anything that has thought put into it? I feel like this was a neat side project for a few electrical/software engineers, nothing was co-opted or done without permission, no hardware was repurposed, nothing was "hacked". They just got alot of commercial off the shelf stuff, put it together with a little know-how and did what engineers do every day. I know this was posted here because it's MIT, and everyone loves it to death when they do anything remotely tech related, but lighting up buildings with LED's has been going on forever, there's nothing particularly novel here other than their specific implementation, no advances in tech have been made.
Maybe I'm jaded...
If you are not manually flipping the switches yourself, you just aren't trying.
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They are in use. The white lights are the room lights.
APK likes to ask for responses to the same things over and over. Maybe he just likes the responses?