MIT Students Play Tetris on a Building: Wish You Could Play?

by SodaHead Gaming Posted 2012/04/27 23:00:00

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There are advantages to attending MIT. You know, besides the job opportunities and sense of accomplishment. A group of MIT students rigged the lighting on one side of the school's Green Building to act as an interactive 9 x 17 Tetris game. Each window acted as a single LED pixel that turned on and off in different colors to depict the actual game, which was played from a console at ground level.

However, this isn't the first time it's been done. According to MIT's Hack Gallery, "Tetris on the Green Building" is the "Holy Grail of hacks," as it's a perfect grid for the 1984 classic. Even before that, it was done by Dutch students in 1995 at Delft University of Technology. Unfortunately, the footage available is less than stellar. Apparently they don't have quality video cameras on-hand at MIT.

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AvaC 2012/04/28 00:31:56

Yes

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Now THAT is cool. I love Tetris! :D

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pyroman... to brandmyhre 2012/04/28 04:40:39

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Not cool. Taking this personally since I can build a robot that can whip your ass and clean up the mess in under 24 hours. Don't diss on us geeks man.

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Osaka to pyroman... 2012/04/28 13:49:25

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So true, LOL. Almost half that claim to be gamers are female.(10% maybe because they play iPhone games and Farmville, which are somewhat taboos in the gaming world. They are not real gamers, if that is all or mostly what they play.)

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pyroman... to Osaka 2012/04/28 19:05:14

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No, I'm not a gamer. I'm more of a science and engineering person. I'm still in highschool but I'm taking Engineering classes in collage, robotics team, MESA, etc. (sounds like I'm bragging, kind of am, but I'm just trying to explain myself lol)

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Osaka to pyroman... 2012/04/28 23:17:37

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(Don't you me, college) Gamers actually fall in a similar category, I was making a point. I'm an artist and I love all kinds stuff. I'd love to actually build robots if I can and I actually dreamt of making a super computer. I'm a dreamer that can't achieve all, LOL.

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tobe to brandmyhre 2012/04/28 16:03:08

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How do you know students at MIT cant get laid?

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THB306 to brandmyhre 2012/04/28 17:15:48

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Looks like you got a lot of haters, dude. Just remember that that MIT nerd you just made fun of will be the CEO of the company you work for. I bet when that happens, you won't be poking fun.

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nico to... to brandmyhre 2012/04/28 18:26:40

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Now please show me where you had the entire side of a building to simulate a Tetris game. If you can't, than this is the chapter where you stfu.

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animelover123 2012/04/27 23:52:16

Yes

That would be so cool!! Haha

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