a final project for my graduate Hardware System Design course. in a nutshell, it's a box that plays Tetris! Mostly!

Tetripi is a little program that runs Tetris on a Raspberry Pi, encased in a little arcade box. It makes use of a 16x8 LED Matrix to display the board and some buttons to control the game. It also features a power switch on the side to "turn off" the game (in reality, it is placed in standby mode) and turn it back on. A piezo buzzer is also used to provide audio feedback to the player.

To run the game, simply run on the command line python tetripi.py (using Python 3.x) and play as far as you can!

The following components were used:

• 16x8 LED Matrix + Backpack (GPIO pins 2 and 3 for I2C) - Displays the tetris board
• 6 LED Pushbuttons - Moves, rotates, and drops the active piece on the board. Each button is wired to 2 GPIO pins, one for input and the other for its LED
  • Up button uses pins GPIO pin 16 for input and GPIO pin 19 for light
  • Left button uses pins 5 and 6
  • Right button uses pins 20 and 21
  • Down button uses pins 12 and 13
  • A button (the right, blue button) uses pins 17 and 18
  • B button (the left, blue button) uses pins 23 and 24
• Slide switch (GPIO pin 27) - Powers on and off the game
• Piezo buzzer (GPIO pin 22) - Provides audio feedback to the player