SomethingUnreal | Computer playing StepMania with servos @SomethingUnreal | Uploaded 16 years ago | Updated 16 hours ago
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
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
![[4 Singing Motors] Koi No Tenshi Mai Orite [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wIBX-G8Mikw/hqdefault.jpg "[4 Singing Motors] Koi No Tenshi Mai Orite [HD]
Now there are 4 motors singing together! Perhaps this is an early Christmas video...? It was originally just going to be a test, but I decided to upload a proper video of it. Still, the sound recording is experimental. I want to find a way that doesnt hear a thump when a DC motor starts and stops spinning.
The music was used in the Christmas special of the anime Love Hina, and is originally sung by Yui Horie and Yukari Tamura (Yamato Nadeshiko).
My laptop runs a program of mine that plays a MIDI file, and sends info about certain notes to an Arduino. The Arduino then shows info on an LCD, switches the 2 stepper motors via 8 MOSFETs, and passes on info for the 2 DC motors to a separate motor speed controller (Sabertooth 2X5), which controls those 2 motors. I think these DC motors are much more suited to the higher notes of a singing voice than the stepper motors are. Likewise, the steppers are certainly better for bass notes. Together, they make a team. =D
The stepper motors and DC motors are running from separate power supplies - 12V for steppers, 15V for DC motors - as I havent found a reliable way to compensate for the drop in voltage that the stepper motors cause when they run (this causes the DC motors to slow down a little).
More info is in the video! =)
BETA TEST VERSION (July 2011): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TW427x2axOs")
![London Touhou-Sai Compilation (June 2011) [HD]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wm7Rfe5AnXc/hqdefault.jpg "London Touhou-Sai Compilation (June 2011) [HD]
On the night of the 24th of June, in a little underground venue, some fans got together and had an awesome time at what was the first ever entirely Touhou-based music event in the UK.
Several people DJd (including Piloru), and there were a couple of special guest acts - Masa-kun on the electric violin and Cassis and Ai-chan from the Oh My Lord! maid café. I helped out with fog and 2 laser beam-shows (which Ill re-record and upload in their own videos some time), and Dnstje was kind enough to offer me his Bad Apple graphic laser show.
Is this the start of more to come?
As I was helping out, many of these video clips are all from around the DJ area, although I did try to move around a bit. Apologies for the distorting sound and grainy picture - it seems that very loud music in a dark place is not a good combination for my camcorder.")
![[Window Lights] In Memory Of Cirn⑨ Day](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xr_xR0I1qWA/hqdefault.jpg "[Window Lights] In Memory Of Cirn⑨ Day
Well, I was a ⑨ and only started making this on the 8th, so it was a big effort for me to get it done and recorded before the 9th ended.
This is an insanely rushed video of the view from outside my bedroom window. Later I intend to upload a video showing the simfile I made (and which these lights are playing) playing on StepMania, because it looks kind of insane, perhaps along with another few views of the lights from other locations.
This video is not uploaded in HD, because too many computers struggle to play HD YouTube videos (they update the picture slowly), and thats a very bad thing for this video. Smoothness is essential here, and the picture resolution is not.
Sadly, I couldnt get it compressed and uploaded before midnight GMT (and certainly not a proper in sync version, *cough* YouTube), but we will NEVAR FORGET our little blue idiot, so I guess its okay. Yep, that makes no sense whatsoever. But who cares? Its Cirno d ! Oh wait, its not any more.")
![[Lasershow] WOTA London Ep 12 (3D attempt) [Correct colour ver]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yFOJoblrFqI/hqdefault.jpg "[Lasershow] WOTA London Ep 12 (3D attempt) [Correct colour ver]
This is a 15-minute show that I rushed together in a week for a small party in London called WOTA, which has a Japanese theme. This was the 12th WOTA, and the final one organised by Piloru. This show is 5 times longer than any show Id made at the time, but I still only had a week from start to finish (which is how long I took to make the 3-minute Dark/Light show). As a result, its nowhere near as detailed as my other shows.
The music starts off as hardstyle, turns to hardcore and ends in trance. The first 3 songs are from USAOs set from day 1 of the online music event Otaku Hardcore Revolution 4, and the final song is by Halozy. The songs are:
USAO - Astro Break
USAO - Bokuってハードスタイルは絶対に聴くな (Dont listen to a hardstyle called Boku)
DJ名無し (DJ NaNashi) - NekoJumpen
Halozy - See You, My Little Moon
I attempted to record this video in 3D with one camera by moving it slightly between 2 separate shots, but it didnt turn out very well. This is partially because the swirls of fog arent in the exact same positions in both shots, and because I apparently moved the camera a little wrongly.
This video version is recorded with my old DV camcorder, which sees the colours well, but its not HD, so text is harder to read. I also recorded the show with my HD camcorder so the text is clear and easy to read, but it struggles to see the colour of the lasers (blue is invisible at times, and theres no difference between red/pink, yellow/green, cyan/green).")
![[Download] SC-88Pro LCD SysEx Generator](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/yZLGj-4fWO4/hqdefault.jpg "[Download] SC-88Pro LCD SysEx Generator
Just a quick video... yeah, that didnt happen. Heres the program I made to control the Roland Sound Canvass LCD, as seen in my Kill Me Baby MIDI with animation. Someone was interested in it, so I finally cleaned it up and am releasing it for download now! It seems that my download videos are always unprofessional, even back to the Bleeper Music Maker days...
Blog post with details and download link:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog/?p=1352
The Microsoft VB6 Runtime installer is included in the download. You only need to use it if my program fails to start. Window 7 and later operating systems come with it pre-installed.
The MIDI editor I use is the brilliant freeware Sekaiju (version 3.8, in this video):
http://openmidiproject.sourceforge.jp/Sekaiju_en.html")
![[Touhou] Luna Dial (Sakuya Izayois theme), Bleeper Style](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/ypVlP3AguVA/hqdefault.jpg "[Touhou] Luna Dial (Sakuya Izayois theme), Bleeper Style
Tsuki Dokei ~Luna Dial~, via the internal PC speaker (or system speaker). I transcribed it for my Bleeper Music Maker, and here it is playing it along with the original MIDI made by ZUN (but with the channels which my program plays MUTED).
This one took about 2 hours 45 mins to complete (ZUNs style of arpeggio harmonies are beautiful, but the complexity of the beauty makes it tedious to transcribe), but who knows how long it wouldve taken if Sakuya hadnt kept slowing time. I thank her. =D (On an unrelated side-note, I am perfectly sane.)
I tried to recreate that messing with time sensation that the percussion and bass in the original did, by using dotted notes for the bass at the equivalent points.
Finally! With a new release of my Bleeper Music Maker, you can now do dotted and triplet notes! =D The buttons are above the music list. You can see the Dotted button automatically pop in and out as it comes across a dotted note (Dot) in the music list.
You can always get the latest version of my Bleeper Music Maker program here:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/hosted_programs/update/bmm/index.html
Please always refer to Info.txt which is included in the ZIP download before asking me something which Ive already answered. ;)
More info about ALL of my releases is at my blog:
http://somethingunreal.homeip.net/blog
EDIT: Damn, this videos quality is rubbish. (Vital comment)
You can watch it in better quality by adding...
&fmt=18
...to the end of the URL for this video.
If you have an account over at NicoNico, you can watch it in decent quality there too:
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3244066")
