Thursday, November 1, 2012

Bored at a Halloween party? Time for some secret Pumpkin Tetris

Bored at a Halloween party? Time for some secret Pumpkin Tetris:


Envision this: you're at a Halloween party, a little drunk, a little bored. You don't recognize anyone's costumes around you except the third, fourth, and fifth Psy you've seen that night, all doing the Gangnam style dance together. Your eyes pass over a seemingly innocuous pumpkin decoration. But wait—is that a Tetris matrix carved into its face? Is the stem a joystick? Are you in discreet gaming heaven?
Nathan Pryor of Hahabird initially aspired to grow several pumpkins into the shape of Tetris blocks (Tetrominos). But when that didn't pan out, he simply used an Arduino to turn a carved pumpkin into a compact gaming cabinet. Behold: a Pumpktris.
Initially Pryor planned to use a LoLShield LED matrix as the pumpkin's display, but each LED needed two wires to run to the Arduino board powering the game. The bundle would have been enormous—and a mess. So to make the display, Pryor built and wired his own (appropriately orange) 8×16 LED matrix and carved out 128 holes for each light on the face of an appropriately-shaped pumpkin. He also programmed the Arduino board true to the game's rules, with pieces that fall with increasing speed as the level goes up, as well as a scorekeeping element.
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