Turning a Treadmill Into a PS4 Controller So I Exercise

you might have let yourself go a little bit over the holidays that's okay I did too and if you're like me and most Americans you probably have some New Year's resolutions that have to do with fitness or diet or getting in shape [Music] the thing is though according to the fitness tracker apps problem people have a huge spike in activity at the beginning of January and then it starts to level off right around week three which if I'm any good at editing is right when this video should be coming up by the time we get halfway through the year the vast majority of people have quit their New Year's resolutions so how do we make sure that we stick with our resolutions how do we make sure that we exercise not just for January but forever hello there you know that looks like it could be a good start oh how do you turn this thing on I've got a degree in electrical engineering and that means that I know for sure this treadmill has a mad case of Cumbres what does that mean it means it's got poop in its brains so it doesn't turn on but you can still hook on it like I'm pretty sure this is burning calories so this guy here is some kind of a sensor that can detect magnets and on this wheel here on this belt pulley you can see here is a magnet so every time this magnet passes by the magnet sensor a little blip gets sent to the poo brains over there so if you count up how many times this magnet passes by the magnet sensor every second you do a little math you can figure out what the equivalent ground speed of this tread is or how fast you're running on the treadmill there is a game called death stranding and this video is not sponsored by death stranding but I am obsessed with it it's objectively not a good game and yet I've still put like a solid 50 or 60 hours into it I couldn't even I couldn't begin to even explain this game to you though you haven't heard of it already this video would be an hour long i just basically it's like if breath of the wild had a baby with neon genesis evangelion antimatter and matter were were unbalanced at the beginning of the universe you're norman reedus you're literally Norman Rita explodes but his body's fine and the soul can make it back there that part doesn't really live rings packages in the apocalypse and that's it wha BOTS like Amazon Prime members who got really into flying cast it turns out the afterlife is real he's going to manage your cargo you have to figure out where your center of gravity is and how much how many Holograms on your area is strapped to your stomach for other reasons the point is almost the entire game is just walking around so all I have to do is take the rotary notice from the treads and use an Arduino to calculate how fast someone is walking on the treadmill and the Arduino can control a digital potentiometer that is connected to a ps4 controller and that way we get a treadmill that I can walk 50 to 60 hours on no problem that lets me play a game of death stranding as it was probably intended to be played luckily I'm a very good friend who is very good at programming quite basically how about speed dial Michael Reaves why aren't you picking up my phone calls good lot I'm looking for what what is going on in here why is it Michael Reaves here Michael recently died I need help for a project I needed to program a microcontroller to microwave a might like an Arduino like Peter can you work with an Arduino he could not the RC relay or it's an RC airplane Rain Man Peter Schreiber doesn't know much about programming but he does know how to make amazing things happen with stupid simple electronics I once watched this guy make an airplane for dumping on Jesus fires that had a brain made out of a relay and a wire that gets unplugged from another wife and that's it that's like if you made a bird that can fly and poop in its brain it was just two neurons I want to be like Peter so let's see just how stupid simple we can make this this is a relay it's like a switch that you can turn on and off with electricity and this one particular is rated for 24 volts so it should trigger right around there and once you know it when you're walking on that dead treadmill the motor can generate just about 24 volts and up to 50 if you're really gonna if you take this relay and connect it directly to the motor in the dead treadmill you can control a circuit and turn it on or off by walking hard enough on the treadmill you can even take two of these relays connect them to the motor with potentiometers and then you can control two different circuits by walking at two different speeds with the threshold set with the potentiometers all right this is a third party ps4 controller cuz I'm not gonna waste a good one on this the left joystick has two potentiometers for sensing up-down movement and left-right movement there's also a push button that lets you press the joystick down as l3 so I can solder lead wires to the up-down potentiometer contacts and the l3 push button contact and connect them to the walking and running relays walking on the treadmill fast enough should turn the walking relay on and that just short circuits the pot contacts which the controller should interpret as pushing forward Full Tilt then if I reach the running threshold the running relay should activate and that shorts the pins on the l3 push button which in deaths stranding is the run I'm all set up and I feel I kind of feel like that the peloton lady like the scared white day one I'm kind of nervous so if this whole setup works like I think it should I'll be able to start walking on the treadmill and that'll make Norman Reedus start walking in the game all about touching any of this part of the controller here we go first steps come on get that threshold real lucky that he's walking in the game oh all right stop stop whoa Oh God Oh Oh that you met don't okay he's okay visa oh it's a lot harder playing with the treadmill all right let's try that again I'll make sure to uh press the shoulder buttons here to balance start walking start walking come on there you go there you go Norman Reedus okay walk in real life walk it in the game now this is a really steep slope so once it once it straightens out a little bit I'm gonna try running because I should be able to also run in real life and make Norman run in the game all right this is a pretty good straight away so I'm gonna pick up the pace okay sexy really I'm not eating really getcha gets you in the quads and stomach all right here we go Samantha bass oh this is a good better place on you say huh huh let's take a look here am i am i sweating oh my God look at that this is real this is all this is a real workout oh my god yeah I think this will work the number one particular this game is that it's a walking simulator yes so that's exactly what you're gonna be doing so right now you're norman reedus there's a corpse strapped to your back you know there's no left joystick on this controller anymore yeah alright so all you have to do is walk board on the treadmill your lights now it's so dark in here the projector to balance you want to use left and right trigger other than that all you really know is that this moves your camera angles that's how you're gonna steer i'm just walk you have to take a drink your energy you need to let us know these three okay now in the in the game I think you walk about kilometer to campus - brilliant help me help me do you enjoy this I do not enjoy this realistic game that you could possibly play because you have to walk to walk okay I got much more energies like this go all you there give me some yeah how do you rate Allan's invention it's actually not bad I expect a lot more especially because Allen how many quarters would you put into it arcade one painful you haven't gone ok what Arthur goes there explain the baby what wait don't touch them because I am I am what part what part the jar baby screaming at me Allen nice torture device so it is we're all losing weight this is 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Channel: Allen Pan - Sufficiently Advanced

Views: 2,576,860

Rating: 4.9398704 out of 5

Keywords: exercise, treadmill, treadmill fail, treadmill running, allen pan, sufficiently advanced, sufficientlyadvanced, death stranding, death stranding trailer, arduino, life hacks, new years, resolution, resolution 2020, petersripol, jabrils, william osman, walking dead, norman reedus, inventions, running, ideas, how to make, work out, workout, ps4, ps4 controller, ps4 controller mod, ps4 controller mods diy

Id: xmABK2Chwe0

Length: 14min 23sec (863 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 31 2020

Reddit Comments

[u/Cardboard_Chef]

"This is so stupid!"

I always love it when modders reach that moment of "Dear God, what have I done?!"

[u/bowlofspider-webs]

What lunatic jogs in blue jeans?

[u/vicaphit]

I would use this if the treadmill was powered and there was a speed controller that would take your input for movement forward to determine the speed of the treadmill. It takes a ton of work to move the treadmill with your feet if it isn't powered, so you'd only be able to play a couple of minutes.

[u/kentrak]

Bonus points for friends captioned image misspelling "you're". That's the realism that drives it home.

[u/b3wizz]

If you don't have 14 minutes you can skip to 7:00 for pure joy

[u/SuprDuprPartyPoopr]

**death stranding modded to play I Hate Video Games

[u/MirrorLake]

If Sony signed off on it, it would actually be possible to do this entirely with a smartphone app. It would marry your phone's pedometer/accelerometer with its ability to broadcast a Bluetooth signal.

[u/Neoxite23]

I remember they had one set up to WoW and athletes were worn out just running from the tree in the Night Elves starting area to the first city.

[u/Maramalolz]

One step closer to the Omni directional treadmill from Ready Player One!!