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This engineer programmed his Christmas lights to play Snake and it’s next level stuff

John Plunkett. Updated December 31st, 2019

Well this just made our Christmas lights feel inadequate. Very inadequate.

It’s an engineer type called Jordy Moos who thought he’d have some fun with the lights on his Christmas tree by programming it to play Snake and controlling it with his PS4 controller.

Next level stuff, although this person wasn’t very impressed after the video was shared on Reddit.

lurvas777: ‘As a programmer and dabbler of electronics I can say it is pretty easy to do something like this. You just need the right electronics and frankly very little knowledge of programming. You can find the whole snake core game online and just replace the way you’d present the output to (the bulbs instead of pixels).

‘The takeaway: what you see seems pretty ambitious but its like newbie knowledge. Sure its an ambitious hobbie thing for some maybe. You’re doing well at other things that for someone can seem like a daunting task. Like an introvert being jellous of an extrovert having an easy time striking a conversation with a random.’

Naah. We’re with this person.

DonnyTheWalrus: ‘You say this but he claims it was a 100+ hour project. I’m a software developer, and I just have to say that looking at a project and saying “Oh that’s not so complicated, I could code that in an afternoon” is a classic dev move. Then a week passes and your boss is like, What happened to one afternoon? And that’s how you learn to not make estimates without getting all the information lol.

‘I’m definitely not saying I’m immune to this either. I have to fight against the instinct to say “oh that’s easy” constantly.’

And if you think you’re up to it, here’s how to do it.

You can follow @JordyMoos on Twitter here.

This is good too, the way this Christmas tree lights up.

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Source @JordyMoos H/T Reddit u/hoopderscotch