Items tagged with 'Tetris'

Mm is excited to be moving towers soon, to a new shiny office inside a new shiny tower… and in the new tower, for reasons too pedestrian to recount here, the boring standard office ceiling tiles are being replaced with clear acrylic ones. This, of course, is awesome. But in what particular way?

Over a few cocktails and glasses of champagne at Guildford’s entirely un-legendary and slightly creepy The-Shining-esque hotel-bar-blue-light-travelling-salesman-horror-venue ‘The Mandolay’, the Molecules put their heads together. ‘What’, slurred Paul ‘Aggie’ Davis, ‘about adding coloured lights above the tiles?’
 
What indeed! I feel a lab project coming on…

A little drunken 3 am googling session later, whilst contemplating how one might wire up and control 2000 ceiling tiles with coloured lights, I discovered this rather wonderful chip: the Allegro A6281.

Are all my dreams answered?

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