[sdiy] Foot-stompin' music (idea wanted)

[j vallier]

The newest rage in Asia are the "synchronized dancing" video/arcade games 
and I have seen them creeping into our neck of the woods as well. This 
technology although I am not quite sure what it is, has to be cheap and 
robust. My wife says they're called "D.D.R." in Korea. Perhaps look for 
manufacturers links related to these (Konomi, Bally, ???) and you'll find a 
dealer that sells spare parts... ?!?

A shot in the dark but HTH

Jeff


>From: harry <harrybissell at prodigy.net>
>To: synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl
>Subject: [sdiy] Foot-stompin' music (idea wanted)
>Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 23:37:12 -0400
>
>Howdy fellow synth-geeks (if you are not a geek just delete this now...)
>
>I'm looking for some ideas for sensing technology. The concept is a floor
>mat that you can tap your feet on to trigger drum sounds.
>
>I've built prototypes using optical and FSR sensing... both methods require
>you to have your feet in a particular location for the method to work.
>
>I'm looking for a larger area solution. Ideal methods would be thin, 
>silent,
>not too heavy (less than 20lbs or so, so a slab o' metal is not out of the
>question)...
>have variable output with foot impact, velocity, pressure, whatever.
>
>I'm considering an FSR array with the individual pads or'ed together... If 
>I can
>get the sensors.  However the company that makes them only offers a design 
>kit
>that would be prohibitively expensive to purchase that way...
>
>Price is a semi-object. If it worked well maybe a couple hundred dollars 
>would
>not be too much to fund the development.
>
>I'd prefer not to instrument the shoes, a'la Joe Paradiso at MIT (who you 
>should
>look up just for his synth, BTW)... because I'd like to hit footswitches 
>without
>triggering a drum event.
>
>What'll it be ? Capacitive, Inductive, Magnetic Proxy, Fiber-optics...
>some collection of old VF displays or slinkys (a'la electric peasent ;^)
>Surface Acoustic Waves... RF... theremin technology ??? Tesla coils?
>Metallic shoes ???
>
>Go wild... all reasonable ideas accepted
>(and unreasonable as well if they are funny enough...)
>
>H^) harry
>
>
>


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