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From Guitar Hero to Wii, the NI Developer Community is using popular video game platforms and NI products to create cool applications. Check out the Top 5 Video Game Application Videos and add your own!

SlashBot: The Guitar Hero Robot

A team of engineering students at Texas A&M is working on senior design project to create a robotic system capable of autonomously playing the popular video game, Guitar Hero. The system uses PXI and LabVIEW to analyze the video signal and a discrete circuit to amplify the digital signal to fire a solenoid actuator used to press buttons on the game controller. Read the Slashbot blog to follow the team’s progress.

NI Frets on Fire

Called “crazy ridiculous” by Gizmodo and “holiday funhouse” by Engadget, this festive application uses an open source video game called Frets on Fire, a Guitar Hero guitar, and NI products to create an interactive symphony of light and sound.

Wiimote, Robotics & LabVIEW

NI AE Evan Dozier found an old robotic arm with a broken controller and revamped it using the popular Nintendo Wiimote controller, NI hardware and LabVIEW. This video shows how he used special Bluetooth LabVIEW VIs to create a program that takes the accelerometer data from the Wiimote and changes it into motion commands for the robot.

Fiery Finger

Set to the popular song “The Way I Are” by Timbaland, this video showcases the NI version of the popular arcade game, Flaming Finger. Using LabVIEW and an HMI, this game tested the skills of developers at NIWeek. Watch players trace over an LED maze in an attempt to escape within the predetermined time limit.

Intelligent DAQ Dance Revolution

This video shows the high-performance and flexibility of R Series Intelligent DAQ hardware and the NI LabVIEW FPGA module through an arcade style dance simulation game. NI hardware generates all audio and video output signals, communicates with two dance sensor pads, and implements scoring and synchronization logic on the FPGA. Click hereto also check out a Google Video of the technology behind this demo.