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December 19, 2005
Xbox 360 Controller for your...Piano?
Just watched the holiday MSDN video where Don Box and Chris Anderson demonstrate how WinFX can be used to send messages from Xbox Controller to a Piano.
A pretty cool demo really. Personally I'm usually just impressed by anyone that can play a piano. Nevermind someone who would think to hook a controller up to a device to broadcast musical instructions to it. Either way a cool video and definitely something teachers should be showing their students in class to demonstrate how limitless technology can be if we open our minds. While I don't think any lives will be saved as a result of this demo - it does show something most people would have thought was completely impossible. I know I would have.
Now what would REALLY impress me is to see them demo this on a recorder. Actually scratch that...even an Xbox controller still wouldn't make a recorder sound interesting. Sorry Mrs. Lewis...it's just true.
Posted by Amanda.Murphy at December 19, 2005 08:15 PM
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Intersting little video, although I got bored after they actually showed the piano working with the controller. :)
Posted by: Joe Siegler at December 22, 2005 02:34 PM