{"id":15193,"date":"2025-07-12T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=15193"},"modified":"2025-07-03T02:53:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T02:53:52","slug":"playing-snake-water-screen-july-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/playing-snake-water-screen-july-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Playing Snake on a Screen Made of Water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gaming on a medical device\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rf-efIZI_Dg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">YouTuber Steve Mould has repurposed a sophisticated medical research device for a wildly creative purpose: playing classic video games. Using a technology called electrowetting, the device allows him to control individual droplets of water on a grid, turning them into living pixels. After consulting the inventor and coding with an AI assistant, he successfully programmed playable versions of\u00a0<em>Snake<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Pac-Man<\/em>\u00a0on the unique liquid screen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In a stunning fusion of science and nostalgia, a creator built video games where the pixels are not on a screen\u2014they are actual, controllable droplets of water.\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/rf-efIZI_Dg\/maxresdefault.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,17,16],"tags":[14117,14131,14123,14120,14114,14118,14129,14127,14124,14125,14121,14119,14112,14128,14115,14113,14126,13414,14116,882,14130,14122,189],"class_list":["post-15193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","category-engineering","category-math-and-the-sciences","category-tech","tag-arduino-project","tag-coding-with-ai","tag-controlling-water-with-electricity","tag-diy-video-game","tag-electrowetting","tag-gordi-labs","tag-hacking-a-device","tag-how-electrowetting-works","tag-java-programming","tag-liquid-display","tag-medical-research-device","tag-microfluidics","tag-open-drop","tag-open-source-hardware","tag-pac-man-with-water-droplets","tag-playing-games-with-water","tag-retro-gaming","tag-science-experiment","tag-snake-on-water","tag-steve-mould","tag-water-droplet-manipulation","tag-water-pixels","tag-youtube","post_format-post-format-video","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15193"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15195,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15193\/revisions\/15195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}