Turning a Treadmill Into a PS4 Controller So I Exercise

You may have gotten a little carried away 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, diet or get in shape. According to the problem with fitness tracking apps, people have a big spike in activity in early January and then it starts to plateau around the third week, which, if I'm good at editing, is right around when this video should appear in the By the time we reach the halfway point of the year, the vast majority of people have abandoned their New Year's resolutions, so how do we make sure we stick to them?

How do we make sure we

exercise

not just during January but forever? Hello, you know, it seems that way. Like that might be a good start, oh how do you turn this thing on? I have a degree in electrical engineering and that means I'm sure this

treadmill

has a crazy case of Summits, what does that mean? It means it has poop. It's got a brain so it doesn't turn on but you can still hook it on like I'm pretty sure it burns calories so this guy here is some kind of sensor that can detect magnets and on this wheel here on this belt pulley You can see that there is a magnet here, so every time this magnet passes by the magnetic sensor, a small signal is sent to the poop brains there, so if you count how many times this magnet passes by the magnetic sensor every second, you make a little calculation.

You can calculate what the equivalent ground speed of this tread is or how fast you are 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 is objectively not a good game. and I've still put a solid 50 or 60 hours into it. I couldn't even begin to explain this game to you, even though you haven't heard of it yet. This video would last an hour. Basically, it's like Breath of the Wild had a Neon Genesis Evangelion antimatter baby and the matter was out of balance at the beginning of the universe.

You are Norman Reedus, you are literally Norman Rita explodes, but her body is fine and her soul can do it. Back there, that part doesn't really live, sounds the packs in the apocalypse and that's what BOTS like the Amazon Prime members who really got into the flying cast turns out the afterlife is real, he will manage your load, you have to Discover where your center is. of gravity and how many holograms in your area are tied to your stomach for other reasons, the point is that almost the entire game is just walking, so all I have to do is take the rotating treads notice and use a Arduino for I calculate how fast someone walks 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 with which I can walk for 50 to 60 hours without problem and that leaves me play a game of death. stranded as it was probably meant to be played, luckily I'm a very good friend who is very good at programming, basically how about speed dial?

Michael Reaves, why aren't you answering my phone calls? Well, I'm looking for what, what. is happening here why is Michael Reaves here? Michael died recently. I need help for a project. I needed to program a microwave micro

controller

. Someone would like an Arduino like Peter. Can you work with an Arduino? He couldn't use the RC relay or it's a Rain Man RC Plane Peter Schreiber doesn't know much about programming, but he sure knows how to make amazing things happen with simple, stupid electronics. I once saw this guy make a Jesus fire throwing plane that had a brain made out of a relay and a wire that disconnects from another wife and that's it, it's like you made a bird that could fly and poop on its brain, it was just two neurons.

I want to be like Peter, so let's see how stupidly simple we can make this. a relay is like a switch that you can turn on and off with electricity and this particular one is rated for 24 volts so it should activate right there and once you know that, when you're walking on that dead treadmill, the motor can generate only about 24 volts and up to 50 if you really want, if you take this relay and connect it directly to the dead treadmill motor 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 walking at two different speeds with the threshold set with the potentiometers.

Well, this is a third party ps4 controller because I'm not going to waste a dime. well on this, the left joystick has two potentiometers to detect up-down movement and left-right movement. There is also a button that allows you to press the joystick down like l3 so you can solder the wires to the up-down potentiometer contacts and the l3 button contact and connect them to the walk and run relays. Walking on the treadmill fast enough should turn on the walking relay and that just shorts the potentiometer contacts, which the controller should interpret as pushing forward Full Tilt and then if I reach the running threshold. the race relay should activate and that shorts the l3 button pins, which in stranded deaths is the race.

I'm all set and I feel that way. The lady of the platoon likes the white day scared. I'm kind. of nerves so if this whole setup works like I think it should I'll be able to start walking on the treadmill and that will make Norman Reedus start walking in the game it's all about touching any of these parts of the controller here we go first . steps, come on, reach that threshold, so lucky you're walking in the game, oh, okay, stop, stop, whoa. Oh God, oh, oh, that you met, no, okay, okay, visa, oh, it's so much harder to play on the treadmill, okay, let's try that again.

I'll make sure to press the side buttons here to balance, start walking, start walking, come on, there you go, there you go, Norman Reedus, okay, walk in real life, walk in the game. Now, this is a very steep slope, so once it straightens out. I'm going to try running because I should also be able to run in real life and have Norman run in the game. This is pretty good right away, so I'm going to pick up the pace. Okay, sexy, really. I'm not really eating, I understand you, it gets into your quads and stomach, okay, here we go Samantha Bass, oh, this is a better place, you say, huh, huh, let's take a look, here I am, I'm sweating, oh Oh my god, look at that. real, this is it, this is real training, oh my god, yes, I think this will work.

The number one in particular about this game is that it's a walking simulator, yes, that's exactly what you're going to do, so right now you're Norman Reedus. a corpse strapped to your back, you know there's no left stick on this controller anymore, yeah okay then all you have to do is walk on the treadmill, your lights now it's so dark here, the projector to balance , you want to use the left and right trigger. other than that, all you really know is that this moves your camera angles, this is how you're going to drive, I'm just walking, you have to have a drink, your energy, you have to tell us about these three, okay, now on the game.

I think you walk about a kilometer to campus. Great, help me, help me, do you enjoy this? I don't enjoy this realistic game that you could possibly play because you have to walk to walk, okay, I have a lot more energy like this, go all you give me. some yes, how do you rate Allan's invention? Actually, it's not bad. I expect a lot more, especially because Allen, how many quarters would you put in the arcade? A painful one, you haven't gone well, what's Arthur going there, explain to the baby, what's he waiting for, don't touch. them because it's me I'm what part what part the jar baby yelling at me Allen cute torture device so we're all losing weight this is absolutely