Guitar Hero macro board

guitarheromacro

Doesn’t look like the Guitar Hero hacks will be slowing up any time soon. In this recent installment, [Thunderhammer3000] built a board to record Guitar Hero “songs”. It is wired inline with with the fret buttons and strum bar and records each of the key presses. Songs can be recorded at slow speed in practice mode and replayed at full speed. The board is Arduino compatible and has two optoisolator chips for collecting the button presses plus a small EEPROM for storage. The board fits easily inside the guitar body.

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tagged: arduino, eeprom, guitar hero, optoisolator, thunderhammer3000

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so um… source code? diagrams? I’d like to build one myself

Posted at 11:09 am on May 3rd, 2009 by twistedsymphony

Fail..

Posted at 11:23 am on May 3rd, 2009 by anon

C’mon guys, use your brain, if you want to make something like this, it’s not that hard…

Use hackaday as a source of inspiration, not to get your life answers.

Posted at 3:05 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by blair

Pretty interesting read and cool hack. I might to try to attempt it if I can find a free Sunday!

Posted at 8:03 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by playstation 2 systems

what the hell is the real purpose of this though?

Posted at 9:45 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by sarsface

umm, what’s wrong with the resonator or its capacitors? :)

Posted at 12:41 am on May 4th, 2009 by saimhe

Does anyone know this guy’s email address?

Posted at 5:14 am on May 4th, 2009 by blah

@blair This is Hack-a-day, we had a 13 part series on soldering and how resistors work. you really think that these guys here can actually make anything without sourcecode and schematics?

Posted at 5:34 am on May 4th, 2009 by fartface

@saimhe the problem with the resonator is that it’s a crystal and that he screwed up on the PCB board design.
I would have stuffed the caps in the back side to allow the Xtal to sit flush. but then I dont do through hole anymore (actually I stopped in 2001). SMT is so much easier.

Posted at 5:36 am on May 4th, 2009 by fartface

@blair I’ve had a similar project in mind for a while… I was going to use PICs because that’s what I’m familiar with but I’ve also been thinking about getting my feet wet with Arduino but I haven’t really found a good resource for starting out with one… this project comes up and gets me excited but there’s nothing to work off of…

I don’t need inspiration, I need a few good projects that I can learn from by example…

Posted at 8:38 am on May 4th, 2009 by twistedsymphony

While I do appreciate a good hack every now and again, this goes right up there with the rapid fire 360 hack…

It’s cheating, and I wouldn’t be surprised if this somehow, eventually, gets you banned from online services, like LIVE.

Posted at 2:16 pm on May 6th, 2009 by Mr. Sandman

http://www.mininova.org/tor/2836197

Posted at 5:05 pm on Aug 9th, 2009 by teamh4xbox

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