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Tetris Afghan Crochet Keeps You Toasty

Tetris Afghan Throw

What better way to keep the chill out during a round of Oscilloscope Tetris than to snuggle up under a matching Tetris Afghan throw?

Crocheted by Flickr member SheriB626, the handmade throw is plenty big enough to cover up even the most die-hard couch potato. Sheri describes the intricately crafted…

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February 17th, 2008 by: Technabob

Tetris Blocks Fall on Oscilloscope Screen

Scopetris Oscilloscope Tetris

Here’s a cool hack which uses an old oscilloscope to play an accurate game of the arcade classic, Tetris.

Engineer Lars Pontoppidan created Scopetris using an AtMega32 micro-controller to drive the beam of an oscilloscope to mimic the game play of the classic Soviet puzzle game.
Lars had to create…

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February 15th, 2008 by: Technabob

It’s People. Tetris is Made Out of People!

Human Tetris

Everyone’s favorite Soviet block video game has been brought to life using a roomful of people, taking on the roll of the various colored geometric shapes from the game.

The stop-motion video by Swiss artist Guillaume Reymond of NotSoNoisy creative agency is the latest in his series of video game…

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December 31st, 2007 by: Technabob

Tetris Case Mod Won’t Fit in My Living Room

Tetris Casemod by Planet Express Klan

This massive Tetris-inspired case mod isn’t just a single computer, it’s actually a whole farm of networked systems, ready for some serious multiplayer gaming action.

Conceived and built by a Spanish gaming clan known as the Planet Express Klan, I’d have to say this is the most massive case mod…

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September 30th, 2007 by: Technabob

Low-Tech Tetris

Tetris Tower 3D by Radica

We don’t need no stinking video game consoles to get our Tetris on around here. No-siree, we like to play it using real 3-dimensional blocks instead.

Tetris Tower 3D is the classic puzzle-piece video game brought to life. Little lights indicate which block you’re supposed to drop in next. You…

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September 7th, 2007 by: Technabob

Tetris on Your Tv

Tetris on TV

The gaming classic Tetris has been packaged into a standalone gaming device that connects to any television.

Japan’s Epoch company had taken the retro puzzler and put a shiny new coating of gloss on the game interface. I especially like how the controllers actually look like Tetris blocks.

The updated…

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August 7th, 2007 by: Technabob

Tetris Gets an LED Makeover

Sparkfun Tetris Board

A team of tech wizards working with Spark Fun Electronics has built together this awesome wall-sized Tetris game that’s uses colored LEDs to animate the game.

The game features a unique interface that controls the movement and rotation of the game pieces by pressing on square backlit LED buttons. The…

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May 12th, 2007 by: Technabob

Classic Video Games Animated With Candles

The folks over at Boing Boing dug up this fun little stop-motion video features a handful of arcade classics, brought to life through the magic of candle-mation (that is, animation done completely with tealight candles).

Pac-man, Pong, Space Invaders and Tetris all make an appearance, along with a nice little…

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January 28th, 2007 by: Technabob

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