{"id":16110,"date":"2016-12-20T11:30:08","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T10:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16110"},"modified":"2016-12-20T08:49:35","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T07:49:35","slug":"table-top-tetris-game-from-york-uses-a-raspberry-pi-2-for-retro-gaming-goodness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16110","title":{"rendered":"Table-top Tetris game from York uses a Raspberry Pi 2 for retro gaming goodness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/york.hackspace.org.uk\/blog\/member-project-johns-tetris-table\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16111\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tabletop-tetris.jpg?resize=560%2C374&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"374\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tabletop-tetris.jpg?w=1024&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tabletop-tetris.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tabletop-tetris.jpg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tabletop-tetris.jpg?resize=560%2C374&amp;ssl=1 560w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tabletop-tetris.jpg?resize=260%2C173&amp;ssl=1 260w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/tabletop-tetris.jpg?resize=160%2C107&amp;ssl=1 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John Cooper from <a href=\"https:\/\/york.hackspace.org.uk\/blog\/member-project-johns-tetris-table\/\" target=\"_blank\">York Hackspace<\/a>\u00a0has created a tabletop Tetris game for their space. It\u00a0uses a Raspberry Pi 2 to control strips of Neopixel-like LEDs which sit in little foam cube holes beneath the translucent tabletop surface. It&#8217;s low-resolution but it is, frankly, beautiful and it&#8217;s not limited to just playing Tetris either &#8211; a version of Snake is planned and the system is capable of two-player action too! He welcomes <a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/choffee\/tetris_table\" target=\"_blank\">your pull requests on GitHub<\/a>\u00a0if you have any game ideas!\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/choffee\/tetris_table\" target=\"_blank\">The code is available here<\/a>\u00a0and you can read a little more in <a href=\"https:\/\/york.hackspace.org.uk\/blog\/member-project-johns-tetris-table\/\" target=\"_blank\">this blog post from York Hackspace<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Cooper from York Hackspace\u00a0has created a tabletop Tetris game for their space. 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It&#8217;s low-resolution but it&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16110\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[80,21,22,39,63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blinkies","category-games","category-geeky-techiness","category-programming","category-retro"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Table-top Tetris game from York uses a Raspberry Pi 2 for retro gaming goodness - Raspberry Pi Pod<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16110\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Table-top Tetris game from York uses a Raspberry Pi 2 for retro gaming goodness - Raspberry Pi Pod\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"John Cooper from York Hackspace\u00a0has created a tabletop Tetris game for their space. 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