Playing Snake on a Christmas Tree with PS4 Controller by Jordy Moos

Here's what many would consider the epitome of Christmas PS4 homebrew spirit, playing Snake controlled with a PlayStation 4 controller directly on an X-Mas tree by JordyMoos... the blue glowing Christmas balls are the apples you need to collect and naturally if you hit yourself it's game over.

But wait, there's more... the demonstration video features CATS alongside a tutorial on Jordy Moos' YouTube Channel covering how the Christmas tree is made so those interested can create light shows and games for your own holiday festivities!

Playing Snake in the Christmas Tree. Created with Raspberry Pi and WS2811 LEDs

How to: Play Games in your Christmas Tree

Creating of the gaming Christmas tree.

This is a how to video about how the gaming Christmas tree is made. I hope you will enjoy the video and if you have any question then you can leave a comment of contact me on Twitter.

I made this how to video as the result of all those warm replies on the Playing Snake in my Christmas tree tweet! Thank you for all the replies!

Hardware:

• WS2811 12mm LED modules
• Teensy 3.2 as the led controller
• Teensy OctoWS2811 as extension board
• Raspberry Pi 3B as the game computer
• Raspberry Pi Camera v1.3 as LED recorder
• 5.1V Raspberry Pi Power supply
• 5V DC power supply with enough amps to power the LEDs

Here are the links from the video:

• LED Games Code: https://github.com/jordymoos/led-games (Download: led-games-master.zip)
• Teensyduino installation instructions: https://www.pjrc.com/teensy/td_download.html
• OpenCV and the python version: https://opencv.org/releases/ and https://pypi.org/project/opencv-python/

Cheers to @HydrogenNGU on Twitter for passing the word along earlier today!

 

[Eaglehook]

Soon hack the Pentagon using PS4!!! but still no 5.05+ jailbreak...

 

[ClemKos]

Cool as hell, could be a commercial top if this someday hit the shelves!

 

[jwooh]

Pretty neat hack.

 

[Dravsh]

Now that is pretty cool

 

[ham31]

Cool.