Composing music with the Force Trainer
posted May 18th 2010 11:00am by Mike Szczysfiled under: digital audio hacks, toy hacks
In the ongoing quest to make the Force Trainer useful [Hunter Scott] developed a music composition platform for your mind (channel Jack Black’s voice for the last half of that sentence). Using the Force Trainer’s serial port [Hunter] feeds the data stream into a computer via an FTDI cable and uses Processing to make the music. It’s good, and the demos on his site are worth the click, but we still can’t get enough of the shocking video from back in March. But we digress, let [Hunter] walk you through his setup in the video after the break.
It would be sort of nice to have this thing to see how active the person is and based on that chooses the next song in the playlist.
So, for example when I’m reading a relaxing book I might prefer classical piano music over high tempo techno music and vice versa when I’m playing some FPS. Don’t know though if it is just easier to change the song than hold that thing in your head.