🎮🧠 MIT Hack Culture Level: LEGENDARY
In 2012, MIT students turned the Green Building—a 295-foot-tall campus skyscraper—into a fully playable game of TETRIS. Yes, seriously.
Using the building’s 153 windows as pixels, hackers rigged up custom circuitry and LED lights to create a giant, vertical arcade screen. Passersby could walk up and play the game in real-time, watching colorful blocks fall from the top of the building.
It wasn’t just a tech flex—it was art, engineering, and fun rolled into one.
At MIT, hacking isn’t about breaking the rules—it’s about creativity, wit, and tradition. And few hacks have lit up the night (literally) like this one.
🕹️💡 Where else can a game of Tetris become a city-sized monument to imagination?
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