Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @12:32PM from the also-electrocutes-neighborhood-vandals dept.

antdude writes "Pumpktris is a fully playable version of Tetris built into a pumpkin, with 128 Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for the display and the stem serving as a game controller."

40 comments

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Pumpkin-carving dick-measuring contest by OldSport · 2012-10-30 12:37 · Score: 4, Funny

I have officially lost.
1. Re:Pumpkin-carving dick-measuring contest by SeaFox · 2012-10-30 18:57 · Score: 1
  
  Speaking of dicks, did anyone else think the joystick/stem should have been a little shorter?
  It seemed really phallic-looking in the player's hands.
2. Re:Pumpkin-carving dick-measuring contest by K.+S.+Kyosuke · 2012-10-31 00:58 · Score: 1
  
  Speaking of dicks, did anyone else think the joystick/stem should have been a little shorter? It seemed really phallic-looking in the player's hands.
  Should be shorter? Phallic-looking is wrong? Are you kidding? Joystick was invented by a man. Not just any man, but an early French aviator to boot. And the name itself! You really think this is a coincidence? *nudge nudge, wink wink*
  
  --
  Ezekiel 23:20
slow news day? by iamhassi · 2012-10-30 12:52 · Score: 1, Insightful

So.... it's Tetris on a circuit board.... and he extended the wires for the LEDs and drilled holes in a pumpkin for the LEDs to shine through?

Maybe I'm missing something..... why is this interesting?

I understand playing tetris on a skyscraper, because A) it's a skyscraper B) getting the rooms to light up on queue is difficult, but this is just LEDs, it's just... normal tetris... but LOOK! It's in a Pumpkin!

Can someone explain why this is interesting?

--
my karma will be here long after I'm gone
1. Re:slow news day? by Thoughts+from+Englan · 2012-10-30 13:11 · Score: 0
  
  Apparently not
  
  --
  That was supposed to be "Thoughts from England" ... Oh well.
2. Re:slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 13:15 · Score: 0
  
  because announcing news hours after its announced else where is the thing to do!
3. Re:slow news day? by Charliemopps · 2012-10-30 14:16 · Score: 4, Insightful
  
  1. It's holloween 2. dude programed an andrino to do tetris 3. dude drilled a zillion holes in a pumpkin and turned the stem into a joystick Is it amazing? No... but certainly creative, geeky, and fits the season.
4. Re:slow news day? by Penurious+Penguin · 2012-10-30 14:21 · Score: 4, Funny
  
  I think it has something to do with Halloween. I doubt it would have made it through had it been an electrified parsnip or burning yam. I'd also be surprised if it makes it through again come next 4th of July. I know some folks are pretty hardcore around here, and that if they built a damned pumpkin, it would be built to last and do a helluva lot more than imitate an outdated video game. No, it would make SkyRim look like Atari, and would beam lasers to the space station and hover mid-air, during boot. I'd probably be lynched and hanged with wireless if I admitted to thinking it was neat. So I'll pretend I'm disappointed too.
  
  --
  Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
5. Re:slow news day? by maroberts · 2012-10-30 14:45 · Score: 1
  
  Pumpkin display is still at an early stage of development.
  You obviously need to wait until Apple gets into the game and releases an iPumpkin with a Retina display and a touchPumpkin interface (patented of course). Of course, iPumpkins will only be available at Apple stores and may be limited to one per customer.
  
  --
  Donte Alistair Anderson Roberts - hi son!
  Karma: Chameleon
6. Re:slow news day? by the+biologist · 2012-10-30 15:14 · Score: 1
  
  I like how he made the handle transparent.
7. Re:slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 15:28 · Score: 0
  
  He used the stem as a joystick... nuff said
8. Re:slow news day? by tbird81 · 2012-10-30 17:49 · Score: 2
  
  The were going to write an article on what you do, but "Slashdotter complains about 10,000th article" did not survive the Firehose.
9. Re:slow news day? by drkim · 2012-10-30 18:10 · Score: 2
  
  You obviously need to wait until Apple gets into the game...
  Actually, this guy is already in deep legal trouble.
  You see, Apple holds patent #9780870 which protects any, "...fruit named, or fruit-like objects, capable of playing or displaying only non-current computer games or video games."
  Additionally, Patent #94345350, gives them exclusive rights to, "...any object, article, device, thing, unit, planet, vehicle, body organ, fruit, vegetable, legume, or any other object or thing which can be discerned and/or observed; whether or not it has been discerned and/or observed..." that has "...a rounded, streamlined, and/or non-square shape..."
10. Re:slow news day? by ozmanjusri · 2012-10-30 18:55 · Score: 2
  
  I doubt it would have made it through had it been an electrified parsnip or burning yam.
  
  Dunno mate.
  I would totally go to a Burning Yam festival, especially if they have electric pumpkins there. Not so keen on Cinderfella though.
  
  --
  "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
11. Re:slow news day? by Penurious+Penguin · 2012-10-30 19:46 · Score: 1
  
  Cinderfella
  Would that be Guy Fawkes; or is my British off?
  - V?
  PS: Regarding the yams, I concur - with butter and honey.
  
  --
  Forward! -- Emperor Norton, 2012
12. Re:slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 22:29 · Score: 0
  
  And you did...what? ... ... ... (some free ellipsises for you, since you seem to need it a lot.)
13. Re:slow news day? by Opportunist · 2012-10-30 22:58 · Score: 1
  
  No he didn't reinvent the wheel or create the next big thing to solve a problem, but he did manage to make me smile. Personally, I consider that a good thing.
  Considering the amount of crap being reported as news in the average newspaper, I guess this would count as "yellow press nerd news", and why not? It's a cute thing, and quite ingenious if you ask me to take an old custom like pumpkin carving and bring it into the digital age.
  
  --
  We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
14. Re:slow news day? by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-31 00:03 · Score: 0
  
  It's interesting because it's fun. But you already know that, you're just being passive aggressive because you're bitter that it's not you that's getting attention and approval for something that you now have to make a big noise about being within your capabilities.
15. Re:slow news day? by ozmanjusri · 2012-10-31 00:18 · Score: 1
  
  Not so British - Jerry Lewis.
  And try some Malaysian Fatt Put (crispy yam ring, filled with chicken and cashew), if you get a chance.
  
  --
  "I've got more toys than Teruhisa Kitahara."
16. Re:slow news day? by craigminah · 2012-10-31 03:55 · Score: 1
  
  Does "a zillion" now equal 128? Not really newsworthy...
The tenacity of a nerds... by Onuma · 2012-10-30 13:10 · Score: 2, Insightful

...can never be stopped by boundaries of "That's a silly idea" or "That'll never work".

Thank you nerds, techies, geeks and other misanthropic, misunderstood outcasts!
Even though this project may just be a game, this type of devotion to science and technological innovation is how we have advanced as a species.

--
What else can happen when an unstoppable force collides with an immovable object?
Copyright problem by tepples · 2012-10-30 13:21 · Score: 1

How long until Alexey Pajitnov and Henk Rogers get this shut down as an infringement of the copyright in Tetris?
Not even Tetris. by MouseTheLuckyDog · 2012-10-30 13:22 · Score: 1

A true hacker would have used multicolor LEDs. Then he could havge gotten a real tetris not this lame imitation.
1. Re:Not even Tetris. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 13:32 · Score: 0
  
  more importantly, Tetris is wider than 8 rows.
2. Re:Not even Tetris. by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-31 02:19 · Score: 0
  
  And taller than 16 columns!!!
As hard as I tried to resist... by KrazyDave · 2012-10-30 14:42 · Score: 2

I had to click the link to look at it... *sigh*

--
www.chihuahuarescue.com- Help to end dog abuse, abandonment and cruelty
In other news... by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 15:07 · Score: 0

...I've got one hell of a case of GAS. Good thing is, smells like roses...
1. Re:In other news... by Mitt+Romney · 2012-11-02 01:11 · Score: 1
  
  Test
  
  --
  I approve this message.
Neverwinter MMO by Atari SA by tepples · 2012-10-30 15:13 · Score: 1

No, it would make SkyRim look like Atari
Atari is publishing a Neverwinter MMORPG next year. So in a sense, Idthesda's Skyrim does look like a forthcoming Atari product: they're both fantasy role-playing games.
1. Re:Neverwinter MMO by Atari SA by craigminah · 2012-10-31 03:55 · Score: 1
  
  First person to put Neverwinter MMORPG into a pumpkin will make it onto /.
I really thought by Brad1138 · 2012-10-30 16:44 · Score: 1

Organic LEDs had come farther than this...

--
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
Someone already did it better, minus the pumpkin by Powercntrl · 2012-10-30 17:12 · Score: 2

There's a guy on YouTube who implemented a much better clone of Tetris, complete with upcoming piece display, on RGB LEDs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugub6d65b2A
But they didn't think to shove it inside a pumpkin, so no one cared. There's an Apple analogy in there, somewhere.

--

---
DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
Re: by JustinIshley · 2012-10-30 20:00 · Score: 1

he did amazing work!
"Pumpktris"?! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 21:15 · Score: 0

Where are the Portmanteau Police when you need them?
1. Re:"Pumpktris"?! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-30 21:49 · Score: 0
  
  Where are the Portmanteau Police when you need them?
  Don't you mean the Portmanteau Authoriteau?
2. Re:"Pumpktris"?! by Opportunist · 2012-10-30 23:01 · Score: 2
  
  The Portmantice wasn't available for comment.
  
  --
  We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
Re:I play tetris with my herd of goats! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-10-31 04:57 · Score: 0

Seriously, man. What's up with writing all this garbage to /.? If you are reading Slashdot, you must be quite smart to begin with, then why not write some great messages too?
Re:Someone already did it better, minus the pumpki by EkriirkE · 2012-10-31 11:42 · Score: 1

Pfft, mine is better. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GzDQwgjvU8&feature=player_detailpage#t=217s

--
from 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 to 45 2F 6E 40 3C DF 10 71 4E 41 DF AA 25 7D 31 3F