Play Music with your Joycon Controller

Project Overview:

• Created a program that allows nintendo switch joycons to play a midifile through vibrations
• Utilized HID API hidraw library to interface with joycons
• Built a Song class to interface between music files and joycon vibration output

How to Use:

1. Download the release
2. Extract exe and dll into the same folder
3. Pair Joycons
4. Put Midi File into the same directory as the exe
5. run musical-joycons.exe
6. Input midiFile name, track1 and track2 when prompted

How to Develop:

This is specifically made for linux. I will add a windows version later (hopefully)

1. Clone the repository git clone https://github.com/sarossilli/Musical-Joycons.git

2. Compile the HIDAPI for your system and add lib files to libs folder

Instructions here: https://github.com/libusb/hidapi

3. use the makefile to Compile: use command make in terminal

4. Connect your Joycons through bluetooth

5. Run the program: use command ./bin/build (midifile).mid track1 track2

Code and Resources Used

Language Used: C++

Libraries:

HIDAPI, using the Linux/hidraw backend. Github Repo Avaliable Here

MIDI file parsing library Github Repo Avaliable [Here] https://github.com/craigsapp/midifile Resources Used:

Nintendo Switch Reverse Engineering. Github Repo Avaliable Here

JoyCon-Driver. Github Repo Avaliable Here