Theremin controlled Mario

Well, it had to be done! Who needs a Natal when you’ve got a theremin! (OK, its not quite the same, but anyway...) This is even more fun with two people playing! One person controls left/right, the other controls jump. Its not just limited to the theremin. Its even possible to hook up a microphone and use your voice to control the game! Or a guitar! Or a violin! Heres how it works: The sound from the theremin is split into its frequency and amplitude components in real time, which are then mapped to values in a linear scale representing the X and Y axis. Pitch becomes horizontal control, and Volume becomes vertical control. The X and Y scales are then cut up into different zones. In this case, Left; Right and dead zones for the horizontal, and a single trigger and dead zone for the vertical. The trigger zones are then mapped onto a virtual joystick hooked into an emulator. The end result is a fairly u