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Pumpkin Carving For the Digital Age: Pumpktris
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."
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I have officially lost.
...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?
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.
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here, and that if they built a damned pumpkin, it would be built to last and do a helluva lot more than imitate an outdated video game.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.
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I had to click the link to look at it... *sigh*
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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.
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The were going to write an article on what you do, but "Slashdotter complains about 10,000th article" did not survive the Firehose.
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..."
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.
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