Guitar Hero arduino note visualizer lights our fire

A crafty Guitar Hero DIY-er has built a little project with possibly startling implications. The includes ambient light sensors in front of the television which are triggered by the light of the notes on screen during Guitar Hero gameplay. The sensors trigger an Arduino to turn on LEDS on a nearby setup. In the video (which is after the break) you can see the entire thing in action -- which maker Joe says can eventually lead to a rig which plays the game for you. The horror!

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[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:27PM]

Why is everything in italics?

[Brad Hubbard Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:31PM]

Give Laura a break, she just wanted everything to look really spiffy for a little bit.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2009 4:46AM]

Replying here to get higher on the page

This has already been done, to play the game for you. for the internet Tv show PurePwnage as shown in the first behind the scenes episode.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2009 9:25AM]

@Talb: "Replying here to get higher on the page"

Bad form. Yes, I know I'm also replying to the first comment, but this is actually in response to your comment. If you really need Internet Cool Points that come from comments at the top of an article, reply earlier or respond to the comment you're replying to. However, Internet Cool Points are worth jack squat.

You get a minus vote from me.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:27PM]

Hey Engadget,

Learn to close your tags, geniuses!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No wonder the economy is in the shitter!

[TheDigeratiDude Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:31PM]

I did not realize that failure to close tags was the reason the economy was going down the drain. The Government needs to be alerted of this! Obama is wasting his money on the wrong resources! Where's Al Gore when you need him??? The Father of the Internet should have figured this out already!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2009 1:17AM]

Damn! If the economy is that sensitive, then let's hope that it never finds out about idiots who continually spell "a lot" as "alot" or those who can't figure out the simple difference between their/there/they're! Our economy would *never* be able to recover!!

[btprice2001 Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:30PM]

Ahhh! The end is nigh!!!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:32PM]

In before the fix!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:32PM]

I like the Interactive Toilet arduino use better!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:39PM]

This sentence is to be read with gravitas.

Gravitas.

[Jack Bauer Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:47PM]

Italiced (?) +1 to you sir

[Towncivilian Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:39PM]

Must be swine flu.

[PhoenixFox Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:41PM]

and I thought what I saw yesterday was bad copy editing. She's broken the entire site, jesus christ.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:42PM]

< / i >

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:49PM]

Or maybe < / em > without spaces.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:53PM]

Line 134, Col 76 Laura.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:42PM]

That's some pretty cool stuff... But then letting something play for you takes away the point of games so hahah



they are probably using php... but html's worth the try hahah

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:44PM]

I wish I could end the italic madness.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:45PM]

C-C-C-C-Commmmmmbo Breaker!
(low ranked here I come baby!)

[maveric101 Posted Apr 29th 2009 8:06PM]

what combo did you even break?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:45PM]

omg epic fail :(

[Trial Posted Apr 29th 2009 8:27PM]

Epic –adjective Also, ep⋅i⋅cal.
1. noting or pertaining to a long poetic composition, usually centered upon a hero, in which a series of great achievements or events is narrated in elevated style: Homer's Iliad is an epic poem.

-Dictionary.com

[brentos Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:47PM]

I think my screen is slanted!

[Sepirioth Posted Apr 29th 2009 7:54PM]

Its italic to make it look more "sufficticated". But back on point for a sec, in other words this dude is building a music playing device? Aka stereo, radio, computer, mp3 player, gramophone whatever example you wanna use(NOT that i dont see the coolness of it recognizing the notes etc even if just for achievements on xbl for example)

[Joshs Red Pants Posted Apr 29th 2009 8:01PM]

If they fix it then most of these comments wont make a lot of sense to future generations.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 8:05PM]

Well, it's most likely that Weblogs (and Engadget) will suffer a catastropic failure sometime in the future, so I wouldn't worry about it. ;)

By the by, FIXED

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2009 2:25AM]

Nothing posted on Engadget will make sense to future generations.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 8:43PM]

Good timing, I'm listening to Light My Fire right now

[mattman6 Posted Apr 29th 2009 8:57PM]

As far as getting guitar hero to play itself, this has kinda already been done.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZHR0iLe6Rc

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 9:34PM]

The guys from PurePwnage made this thing like a year ago, and it was pretty cool, just to make Jeremy score 5 stars in a RockBand song, link: http://www.purepwnage.com/shorts/modding_rockband.html

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 29th 2009 9:45PM]

@Matt whoa sorry, must have pressed the link too late T_T

[RoboticMayhem Posted Apr 30th 2009 12:31AM]

Doing it all with software is cool, but I like the hardware iteration more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50SEmXDh6Bw

[ch4s3r Posted Apr 29th 2009 10:13PM]

What is the point of this?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 30th 2009 3:01AM]

uhm.... to appear on the Internet : )

[sciguy14 Posted Apr 30th 2009 1:38AM]

Uhh... has engadget forgotten about DeepNote? They did make two posts about it. Not only does it do exactly what this does, but it actually plays the game...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iA758B0anfM&feature=PlayList&p=15A2667C4D92BFF6&index=0&playnext=1