Computer playing StepMania with servos

Computer plays StepMania CVS 4, controlling servos to press the arrow keys according to step sequences in StepMania files. It's my latest project, and this is a mere prototype. Lots more info and quite a bit of showing off in the video.

It plays "Overdrive" (for the sake of avoiding typing a really long title which I can't translate) by IOSYS, and even gets a toasty on "Piano Variation for Remilia Scarlet".

For the technically-minded, I'm using an SSC-32 (microcontroller), and 4 Hextronik 5gr (HXT500) micro servos. The program was made with Visual Basic.

The first song can be found in Touhou (1st) SM pack:
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=URSW7PSI

The second song's from Otaku's Dream 2nd Video Game Mix, which can be got from here:
http://www.otakusdream.com/

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• music
• StepMania
• Touhou
• DDR
• Overdrive
• IOSYS
• Piano
• Variation
• Remilia
• Scarlet
• computer
• electronic
• servo

[rawrz0rss]

Lol my friend could probably pwn you. Hes really good at DDR and FFR. Computer vs. Player >;D

[SomethingUnreal]

Haha... well, I wouldn't be too surprised if he could beat me (myself - although you might want to check my more recent StepMania videos). Also, these servos are easy to beat just by jolting things near them since they come off the keyboard... although they also manage to make themselves lose like that by themselves. I only made the thing because I was bored - funny how much of my things come about from boredom...

[stepxunit]

nice programming :D you should make it some hard song AAA

like Disregard or something :D

awesome

[SomethingUnreal]

Thanks. I think the best it will ever get is AA, though, since it's almost impossible to make it hit the first note in a song. Since my program's separate from StepMania, it takes a slight bit of trial-and-error to get it in sync at the start of a song (I don't show that here, though).

I'm glad you like it, though!

[alphamone]

where did you get that stepmania UI, because it looks much nicer than the one i have now.

[SomethingUnreal]

It's just the default UI for StepMania CVS 4. ;)

[zombierobopirate]

they are so cute

[clubpenguin1help]

That is so Cheating XD

[LudvikChannel]

This was soo cool! I wish I could to something like that!

[Mil3naChan]

O.M.G.

[ttttiiiieeeessss]

that was sooo c00l ROFL XD

[amando96]

loool thats seems fun :)

[SecondLifeEnglish]

ha...too sweet :)

[DjScudMissile]

that actually made me laugh, those things are cute! lol

[bobbyhill666]

fricken awesome!

[masuat]

You seriously have the coolest hobbies ever.