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A Mechanical Flipdot Tetris Machine

For when the song no longer gets to your roommates

By Rain Noe - April 12, 2018

in Tech

Playing Tetris is a reliable way of blowing off steam for many, with a side benefit being that the music may irritate your roommate. But if your roommate has become inured to the song, you can ratchet up the sonic presence of your game-playing by constructing a Tetris machine using mechanical flipdots:

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If you'd like to build this thing, there's some information to get you started here and here. (Just remember to learn German first.)

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Paul Elia

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My son used Flip Dots to combine retro with new. The Flip Dot display is connected to wifi and using IOT the display can show any sourced data - from time, temperatures, Bitcoin price, to news feeds. He has provided Instructions and coding so that you can buy and programme your own. Paul Elia Toronto
https://www.hackster.io/mrelia100/particle-photon-flip-dot-clock-2d83a7

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