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- Funny, I guess this idea is in the air (har har).
I've made a couple things along these lines over the past year. One is a fun, Halloween-themed toy:
https://blog.cochlea.xyz/theremin.html
The other is a (slightly) more serious exploration of multivariate time signals as a control signal for an instrument. In the latter case, the instrument is learned/inferred from a segment of input audio:
https://blog.cochlea.xyz/resonancemodel.html
This is a really neat idea! Like others here, I'm not a huge fan of the hyper-dense and dripping-with-ai UI, though.
by cochlear - Bah, I got part way through making this as an iPhone app and this person beat me to it :P
Seriously though: nicely done, UX here is better than what I came up with.
by ben_w - Since a physical theremin is played by non-contact gestures and motions, perhaps your creation might be more aptly termed a "Virtual theremin."by bookofjoe
- If my Jack Russell is in the right mood, I can make him growl by bringing my hands up as if to stroke him.
I call this the Therrieremin.
by dash2 - Funny I built a very similar app just a few days ago. Cool idea!by linesofcode
- Very impressed by the responsiveness of this. But I gotta say, it's much more fun to play a physical theremin, which has slightly different controls (two antennae, one controlling volume and the other pitch).
https://www.gaudi.ch/OpenTheremin/ will run with an Arduino and it's very satisfying to get better at controlling.
by bobbiechen - I’m going to get pwned one of these days, considering my threshold for giving a random website access to my webcam is apparently mild curiosity and entertainment for 30s.by sd9
- I find it a bit suspicious that this exact hand waving data could be used to solve Google's latest reCAPTCHA: https://docs.cloud.google.com/recaptcha/docs/hand-gesture-ve...by leumon