Note Ninja: A musical video game featuring real instruments! 🎸

Senior Design Project created by Hannah Kirkland and Benjamin Wheeler.

The goal of Note Ninja is to provide a challenging yet entertaining version of classic video games such as Guitar Hero and Rock Band to musicians with skill in a particular instrument.

Platform

• Software target: Texas Instruments MSP432P401R on a custom PCB:

• FPGA target: Terasic DE10-Lite (10M50DAF484C7G)

Overview

• Microprocessor:

  • Utilizes a custom RTOS (albertOS) for thread switching and resource sharing
  • Core game logic
  • MIDI keyboard input and decoding logic
  • Controls graphics

• FPGA:

  • Displays graphics on monitor
  • Dynamically renders graphics based on commands recieved from Microprocessor

• DSP (not in repository):

  • Guitar pitch detection
  • Score keeping via LCD

Usage

Clone the project using the --recuse-submodules flag:

git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/benjamin051000/Note-Ninja.git

Build

• CCS-Software is a Texas Instruments Code Composer Studio project.
  • Ensure C++ dialects are enabled to C++14.
• FPGA is an Intel Quartus Prime project.