MIT Tetris Hack: Source Code Released 40
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."
Harware is more interesting (Score:4, Interesting)
Hack hack hack? (Score:1)
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.
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What did they hack? They hacked your very perception of what is possible, man.
Re:Hack hack hack? (Score:4, 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.
Oh my god, some dudes released source code! (Score:1)
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.
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You mean they released the open source code from "project blinkenlights"? And of course they credited the CCC for writing it and should post their changes to it too. I'm sure they will. Just any second now. Cause that's how open source works, attribution and sharing code. Waiting...
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Yeah and The Tetris Company is very litigious [gamasutra.com].
Another open source falling block game (Score:2)
Re:LOL scrubs (Score:4, Funny)
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If you are not manually flipping the switches yourself, you just aren't trying.
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Not the first (Score:5, Informative)
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I doesn't seem that anyone was claiming that MIT were the first, but as long as we're looking at prior art: the first Tetris-on-a-builiding was done by electrical engineering students in Delft, the Netherlands, all the way back in 1995, as you can see on this archived webpage [archive.org]. Futhermore, students at Brown University did it in 2000 (BBC article here [bbc.co.uk]). Both prior projects, but not Blinkenlights, are mentioned in an article about the MIT project here [thecelebritycafe.com]. It seems to me that each of these projects has something t
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Yeah, but they were foreigners and the MIT guys are Americans. Go America!
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MIT guys are Americans? 50% maybe. And many of them aren't guys.
Any MIT residents out there? White Light question (Score:3)
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?
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They are in use. The white lights are the room lights.
"The âholy grailâ(TM) of hacks" ?? (Score:2)
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.
Hacking? Really? (Score:1)
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 deat
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Meh, most MIT side projects are hardly ground breaking, it doesn't stop them being interesting. The LED dance floor one group did was my favourite.
(Also, I quibble about the requirement "without permission". You can hack something with or without permission.)