https://omarali.me/tags/tetris/ Recent content in Tetris on OmarAli dot Me Hugo en-us Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0400 https://omarali.me/posts/tetris99-bot/ Sat, 19 Sep 2026 09:00:00 +0400 https://omarali.me/posts/tetris99-bot/ <p>I play a lot of Tetris 99.</p> <p>I am decent at it. I am not &ldquo;win the lobby&rdquo; decent.</p> <p>So I had a perfectly reasonable thought:</p> <blockquote> <p>What if my computer played it for me, on the real Switch, pressing the real buttons?</p> </blockquote> <p>Three days later I had:</p> <ul> <li>a robot that finishes in the top 10 against 98 real humans</li> <li>an Arduino that introduces itself to Nintendo hardware under a false name</li> <li>a Tetris coach that draws on top of my own live games</li> <li>three confident theories about why things were broken, all of them wrong</li> <li>soldered exactly three header pins, badly</li> </ul> <p>This is the story, with drawings.</p>