The current setup gets in the mid 80%'s on easy and can beat medium songs, but there are a few things that could be improved:
1) Webcam - the webcam used here is a Dlink camera from 1999. A newer camera would have vastly better image quality and hopefully a higher frame rate. I recently got a D90, and I think with some work I could use this as the camera instead of my crappy old webcam.
2) Code - The current code could probably be sped up by using a different method to get the webcam image. Currently it uses some code I found online and improved upon that uses WIA drivers. I'm also getting frame rate dropouts, which is why it is missing notes. It hits 100% of the notes that it see's, but misses notes when it gets no new frames.
3) Relays - I built this using 15A 12V relays. They are an order of magnitude slower than a reed relay which would have been much easier to use, but I wanted to be able to use this setup to run as a light controller in the future and a reed relay can't handle that kind of juice. Stepping up to reed relays or even some sort of IC would speed up response time a lot.
Am I going to try to improve upon the current setup? Probably not, but maybe if I was really bored. I did this to prove it could be done with a webcam, now I know it can.
was wondering if it was possible to take a peek at the code that detects the keys to play.....
ReplyDeleteHeres what I did.....
I moded a GH3 wirless guitar so that i can plug an arduino to it
I programmed the arduino to play the notes in sequenece... I mean I created an array with all the notes and delays between them and the Arduino reads it and send the notes back to the guitar.
But I need to create that array manualy... I saw your post, and i thought that it would be great if I could instead "read" the notes from a video input (instead of the CAM) and save those note to a .txt file so that I could import it to the arduino afterwards.....
i can see my youtube video..... just do a search for my nick... Buhric