Dance With Your Hands

For my ESE 350 ”Microcontrollers and Embedded Systems” (University of Pennsylvania, Spring 2011) final project, I worked with my friend Eric Chen on modifying Beats so it would take input from an XBOX Kinect. The result is a Kinect hooked up to a Beagleboard-xM running Android and playing Beats. It was all proof-of-concept of course as everything ran with extreme lag, but it was pretty cool nevertheless and fun!

(Direct download)
Proof-of-concept gameplay demo of Beats 1.5.5b with Microsoft XBOX Kinect support. The song used in this demo is “Chaoz Impact” by ParagonX9, stepfile by Lisek with permission for distribution with Beats. The person learning to “dance with his hands” in the demo is my lab partner, Eric Chen while I (Philip Peng) am recording the video.

– Blog
– Demo presentation
– Demo video
– Code (Mirror)
– Binaries (Mirror)
– Final report
– GitHub Project

For installation instructions, download all the files in the “install/” folder and skip down to “5. b)” in the report.

Demo Presentation

Photos

DanceWithYourHands: http://dancewithyourhands.blogspot.com
BeatsPortable: http://beatsportable.com/2011/05/beats-kinect-win/
BeatsPortable Forums: http://beatsportable.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=1023