By Candide Uyanze Published on Nov 8, 2020

Experiment 3: Footwork

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Preamble

Hiii! So, this is Candide, writing in the future (2024) about a past work (2020). Today, I learned that OCAD was going to delete the email addresses of alumni two years after graduation, and guess what? It's been two years yo!!

Anyway, IT told me that this included my access to Canvas Cloud, which is the education platform / Learning Management Software (LMS) that OCAD used to manage course content and assignment submissions. Because of la pandémie, a large chunk of our work happened virtually during my time at OCAD (2020 - 2022).

Anyway, in Creation & Computation, we used the Canvas discussion board to share our Related Works assignments and links to our blog posts for each Experiment. I remembered how I wanted to re-post my assignments and blog posts (hosted on a Wordpress site managed by OCAD) on this Publii blog to bring traffic to my site(s) and take it out of the walled garden. I just never got around to posting them all.

Let's just say that OCAD's latest last minute switch-up encouraged me to finish that!! 😅

I've spent the afternoon pasting over my work, and realized that, unfortunately, our class's experiment blog is down / has been taken down, with no Internet Archived version in sight...

RIP class blog... Gone, but those all-nighters will never be forgotten

I'm especially bummed about this because all of our lovely project posts are gone — including my own writeup for Experiment 3! There used to be a time when you could Google my name, and the GIF of me demo'ing the work would be one of the top image results.

Strangely enough, I can find every last bit of work and collaterals for this assignment on my PC, but the actual writeup submission / blog post? Nowhere to be found on my computer...

Anyways, all I have left is some videos, photos, and a GitHub link. Enjoy!

Preamble
Description
Inspo (Derivative Of)
Demo Experience Video
Process Video (Building the Thing)
Gameplay Graphics
Code
Circuit Diagram

Description

"Footwork" is a Dance Dance Revolution clone that uses touch sensors connected to an Arduino as inputs. The visuals are generated using Processing.

I set my version of this game to the tune of "1^er Gaou" by Magic System (a classic).

Inspo (Derivative Of)

The "Footwork" code is largely based on "DDR in Processing" by Jon Castro (3/24/17). The music visualizer that I added to the graphics has been adapted from "Starburst-Music-Viz" by Andre Le.