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Snoil - Snake game with Ferrofluid

Martin writes - "Snake game which is rendered on a Ferrofluid display. User controls the game by tilting the game box to make the snake change direction." - Link.

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Posted by: ThreeQ on April 13, 2006 at 2:28 PM

He should run Conway's Game of Life on it.

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Posted by: blacksh33p on April 15, 2006 at 6:15 AM

For those interested...and who can read German...

http://www.freymartin.de/blog/archives/02_sensitive_skins/index.html

This is the MAKEr's blog which documents the entire project it seems. Schematics are given too.

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Posted by: freymartin on April 16, 2006 at 3:23 PM

hello. my name is martin frey from berlin. i'm the maker of snoil. i've just added the »how it works« part to the video: http://www.freymartin.de/snoil/SnOil_incl-HowItWorks_640x360_QT7-H264_5min_21mb.mov

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Posted by: os on February 13, 2008 at 11:56 PM

this is too cool..

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