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Researcher and YouTube user [mspetitegeek] along with her lab mate [Tatsuhiko Itohara] have been fortunate enough to spend some time working with the HRP-2 humanoid robot from Kawada Industries. Their research has seemingly been focused on using the robot to create real-time interactions with humans for entertainment purposes, at the very least. The program they created allows the HRP-2 to … [Read more...]
[Ryan Challinor] is part of a group constructing a display for this year’s Burning Man festival that includes the Kinect, Ableton Live, and Quartz Composer. As the programming guru of the project, he was tasked with creating a method for his partners to utilize all three products via an easy to use interface. His application is called Synapse and was inspired by videos he saw online of people … [Read more...]
[Steve Hobley] built a Theremin interface board that tracks pitch and volume. Using this setup he's able to pass data over a midi interface which effectively converts the instrument into a non-contact midi controller. As we joked in the headline, this does allow for the use of autotune, by snapping notes that are sharp or flat to the center of the nearest pitch. But you should watch the video … [Read more...]
Oh [Humberto], what will you think up next? A human Theremin you say, and it's for Halloween? Certanly this will blow last years creepy capacitance sensing jack-o-lantern out of the water right? Eh, not really, but still cool none-the-less. By using pairs of IR LEDs and IR photo-transistors, [Humberto] makes a simplistic distance sensor. Then its just a matter of converting that light value into … [Read more...]
Remember those Ebay auctions of air guitars going for several thousands of dollars? We don't either, but Theremin Hero (more info in the YouTube description) is about as legit as you can get to actually rocking on nothing but air. Much like using a theremin to control Mario, the vertical antenna acts as the fret board while the horizontal one detects strumming. Combine the output of the … [Read more...]
[Mojo] has taken a lot of the complex circuitry out of the mix by creating a virtual Theremin. A Theremin is an electronic instrument, usually with two antennas, that senses the proximity of the player's hands to the instrument and responds accordingly. This design, called the AirDeck, uses a Wii remote as an IR sensor and two gloves with IR LEDs in them. Data from the Wii remote is processed … [Read more...]
In the video above, [conquerearth] is using a theremin to control Super Mario Bros. Moving his hand toward and away from the vertical antenna increases the theremin's pitch. The computer monitors this in real time and moves Mario left and right. The loop antenna controls the theremin's volume and acts as the jump button. The controls seem to work well, much better than the sound of one man … [Read more...]
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