Mix Kicks: Wireless Wearable for Mixing Beats
Mix Kicks is a wireless wearable that allows you to sample and mix beats through physical gestures and movement.
The act of stamping your feet allows the user to "make beats." The left shoe plays the sample while the right loops it.
The samples are selected by using the zipper on the hood.
The project uses the Lilypad Arduino, bluetooth, and max msp.
It's quite amusing to watch the video and the interaction—I'm sure even more fun to wear it!
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Comment by Shih Wei-Chieh on July 7, 2010 at 6:54am -
I don't know what kind of sensor you mean. because we always find unnecessary signal when your foot is in the air or sometimes dancers' movement didn't trigger the force sensors.
Therefore, i will try to work by sound, or is there any shock wave sensor!?
thanks
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Comment by matt pinner on July 7, 2010 at 3:55am
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What of some conductive flooring and capacitance sensors?
i hope microphone work. i cannot wait to see how it turns out.
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Comment by Shih Wei-Chieh on July 7, 2010 at 3:44am
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btw, bluetooth is perfect for this.
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Comment by Shih Wei-Chieh on July 7, 2010 at 3:43am
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haha i am doing the same thing!!
for tap dancers
but i've realized force sensor is not suitable, will try microphone...
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Comment by Syuzi on July 1, 2010 at 5:53pm -
awesome! thanks for the update!
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I had a quick dialog w themattstick via youtube comments.
he said:
- used 2 x Force Sensitive Resistor 12mm.
- used bluetooth arduino, also experimented with xbee as well but bluetooth gave better range and easier to use.
I'm not sure i agree about the bluetooth vs zigbee statement, but bluetooth looks to be working well enough.
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Comment by Syuzi on July 1, 2010 at 12:05pm
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no clue regarding the sensor but I'm assuming any type of pressure sensor will work.
Like your yellow jacker board btw.
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I'm working on something similar. I love the shoe interface. Any clue what type of sensors were used?
I'm working towards an arduino sending OSC over wifi for ease of intergration into existing DJ/VJ rigs: http://asynclabs.com/store?page=shop.product_details&product_id=24
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