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DIY Football Hero Using the Arduino

Joe L — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:56:54 +0000

We’ve seen plenty of guitar hero projects and even a laser harp hero, but now we have a football hero (Soccer for us Americans). Made for the music industry, the director pulled together a team of DIYers and football players to make the game a reality. Using some piezo sensors to detect impact vibrations using the Arduino, he projected the game on a warehouse wall to play.

More details on the project’s background can be found in this video. Not too much detail of the project such as source code is available, but setting up piezo’s with an Arduino is pretty straightforward. Check out some of our other Arduino projects below:

Making Music with the Virtual Laser Harp

Saikat — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 04:13:47 +0000

Laser harp inventor Steven Hobley is back with another exceptional project.� We covered his outstanding laser harp build last year and was also included in our Top 40 Arduino Projects.� So what’s so cool about a harp anyways?� It’s just the incredible cool factor of a classical instrument meeting the future with wicked bright lasers now combined with a “Harp-Hero” video game interface.

A single 450-milliwatt green laser beam reflected by fast moving motorized mirror ‘creates’ multiple beams very rapidly. The variation in hand movements through the laser beams creates the flux. This symphonic change in the beam is picked up by sensor arrays connected to a Nintendo Wiimote. An impOSCar VSTi software synthesizer on a computer interprets the signals via Bluetooth and that’s how hand motion becomes music.

The innovator has shared some of the details on his website and the above video.� If you are looking for more laser projects beam over to view all of our laser projects and buy lasers from our store for your next laser project supplies.

DIY Custom Guitar Hero Keyboard & Drum Controllers

Joe L — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 03:51:56 +0000

After fatally injuring his middle finger in an epic guitar hero battle, this hacker decided to build new, custom midi controllers for the game.Â� Included are a midi keyboard and drum set which work both on rock band and guitar hero.Â� The software, full tutorial and video demos are avaliable.

Custom Guitar Hero Faceplates

Joe L — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 19:02:55 +0000

Everyone loves Guitar Hero. Unfortunately, the faceplates are currently unavailable to be purchased. So we’re stuck with the painful pure white. Recently I decided to take care of this problem and designed my own cover to my controller. Here’s how I destroyed the blank canvas.