I set up an Arduino to read the notes on Guitar Hero and flash an LED to that corresponding note.
I used this ambient light sensor, from sparkfun.com to read the changes in value on the screen. When something bright flashes in front of it, the Arduino will turn on an LED for as long as that brightness is there.
Take it one step further and you can have this robot play Guitar Hero for you.
I’ve been working on this for a few weeks now, and thanks to the helpful people at the Arduino forum, I’ve finally finish. This little box allows you to play XBox games with a Wii classic controller, (it’s limited in that and not worth doing so) but that’s not why I made it.
The purpose is Programable Macros. You can have one button set off any combination of button presses you want. The reason it’s a Wii controller is it works nicely with the Arduino.
The setup is pretty simple, I took a wireless Xbox controller apart, soldered wires to all the contact points for the Dpad and the “X,Y,A,B” Buttons. Each button is connected to a small transistor, which has its base recieving input from the Arduino. Thanks to a lot of help from the good people at the Arduino forum, I was able to have the Arduino press the Xbox Controllers buttons when input was recieved from the Wii classic controller. All unused buttons on the classic controller were assigned to special combinations.
It comes in handy if your not fast enough to do combination moves in Street Fighter. I wouldn’t use this for “evil” but it was fun to make.
