Pumpkin carved into a playable Tetris-O-Lantern
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Just in time for Halloween, an actual pumpkin was outfitted with LED lights to create a playable Tetris game, with the stem converted into a joystick
Tetris has been recreated in quite a variety of formats before, but this is probably the first one built inside a pumpkin, let alone any other type of gourd
Finally, he added the master stroke to the whole creation and converted the pumpkin stem into a functional joystick, which controls the game while still remaining attached to the top
The result is a pumpkin that can play a full game of Tetris, raise the difficulty level, and even track the high score
The game display is comprised of 128 LEDs, which were used to construct two 8x8 matrices
The next step was to drill holes for each LED
Squares were carved around each hole to give it that pixelated look
Article Summary
Every Halloween brings a new batch of creative takes on the traditional Jack-o-lantern, but very few of these actually try to give a pumpkin a technological enhancement. This year, one programmer decided to change that by hacking a pumpkin into a working version of Tetris by using a grid of LED lights and converting the stem into a functional joystick.
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