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Guitar Hero + Office Christmas Lights = Crazy Ridiculous
Posted by Jason Chen at 10:45 AM on December 25, 2007
One of the developers at NI (we think this is National Instruments) took a guitar hero guitar, a copy of Frets on Fire (the open source PC version of Guitar Hero) and the office Christmas lights and rigged the three up to a cacophonous symphony of light and sound.
Essentially, whenever he does something in the game, the lights go of to correspond. When he hits a fret, one of the five colored lights light up; when he misses a note, the trash can lights up; and when he hits a note, the entire office lights up. It's all very cool until you discover that you're trying to work and your coworker's having a seizure from all the lights. [VI Roadshow]
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bobide
Posted 8:36 PM 24/12/07
i see the folks at NI are getting a lot done. . .
bobide
uptonogood
Posted 8:27 PM 24/12/07
sorry ladies, but it looks like he's taken!
uptonogood
poppageorgio
Posted 7:44 PM 24/12/07
I would love to do something like this at work, but then they would bring up that whole "productivity" thing. And I've used up all my office morale excuses earlier in the year.
poppageorgio
Darkest Daze
Posted 9:02 PM 24/12/07
And I thought we had low productivity at my job. Very Festive none-the-less.
Darkest Daze
faust1200
Posted 10:54 PM 24/12/07
@homerjay: He plays at the beginning of the video. Trust me it's even lamer than you could have imagined. You're probably better off in your state of inebriation.
faust1200
homerjay
Posted 10:46 PM 24/12/07
Is it just me or did he spend the entire time explaining how it works and none of the time actually demonstrating it? I mean, I'm pretty loaded on irish creme right now, but I'm pretty sure I didn't see the thing actually functioning.
homerjay
MadModderX
Posted 10:40 PM 24/12/07
My only issue would be the obnoxious instability of FoF. It hates every computer I put it on...
MadModderX
discounteggroll
Posted 11:33 PM 24/12/07
@homerjay:
trust me, it's even better when your druneker...i wached it twice
discounteggroll
krztov
Posted 4:54 PM 25/12/07
scratch that, he said national instruments, never heard of em :)
krztov
krztov
Posted 4:43 PM 25/12/07
chances are NI means Native Instruments, theyre a software synth company :)
krztov
devGOD
Posted 7:26 PM 25/12/07
thats bad ass, makes going to work fun
devGOD
Worf
Posted 7:13 PM 25/12/07
Ah national instruments... LabView, and tons of hardware interfaces between instruments and PCs...
Worf
aiafranck
Posted 5:00 PM 24/12/07
NI stand for Native Instrument, a german software developer. Nice vid !!!
aiafranck
neverisforever
Posted 4:23 PM 24/12/07
i think its Native Instruments. they make music software. it just makes sense
neverisforever
RISC
Posted 6:59 PM 27/12/07
yeah, Worf has it right - definitely National Instruments
RISC
tek_nic
Posted 7:15 PM 27/12/07
Im amazed he still has a job.
tek_nic
nirichard
Posted 10:36 PM 30/12/07
@neverisforever: It is National Instruments in Austin, TX. We make hardware and software for control, test, and design...we are the makers LabVIEW and NI DAQ which was used in this application.
These guys are awesome!
Cheers,
R
nirichard