Moonwalking Shoes

Moonwalkers is a great little project by Andrew Schneider, a student in Tome Igoe's Networked Objects class at NYU ITP. Schneider used two old sneakers, some guitar cables, a Nestle Quick box, Arduino, and MAX/MSP to make shoes that control the playback of Michael Jackson's Bad. A photoresistor in the bottom of each shoe lets MAX/MSP start, stop, and slow down the music depending on how far off the ground the soles of Schneider's shoes are.

The end result is that the only way to get the song to play continuously is to actually moonwalk (which Schneider does quite well), making for a great match between the media and the hardware controlling it.