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[Chris Marion] knew he wanted to play with fire, or more accurately with fireball spewing valves, but he need a good project in which he could use them. Inspiration finally struck and he built this controller that matches fireballs to the fret buttons on a Guitar Hero controller. There's quite a lot that goes into this but we think that he hit a home run. The basic components are a manifold with … [Read more...]
[Johnny Chung Lee] put together a system that is perfect at playing Guitar Hero. He's using the PlayStation 2 version and, as you can see above he's combined a controller connector and a Teensy microcontroller board to communicate with the console using its native SPI protocol. This custom guitar controller receives its signals via USB from a computer that is monitoring the video from the console … [Read more...]
Remember those Ebay auctions of air guitars going for several thousands of dollars? We don't either, but Theremin Hero (more info in the YouTube description) is about as legit as you can get to actually rocking on nothing but air. Much like using a theremin to control Mario, the vertical antenna acts as the fret board while the horizontal one detects strumming. Combine the output of the … [Read more...]
[Robert] wrote a program using Max/MSP that lets him make music with his guitar hero controller. There's another video after the break where he walks through the various features but here's the gist of it. This works on Mac and Windows and allows a sort of 'live play' or midi mapping mode. In the midi mode each key can be configured to do your bidding. His example uses the pick bar to scroll … [Read more...]
It's a Guitar Hero Christmas Nope, we're not adding Christmas songs to the game, but instead making the game part of the decor. [kumbaric] hung strings of lights on his garage door in the shape of this familiar gaming interface. The best thing is, you can actually play the game based on these lights. [Thanks Yuppicide] Smallest... Snowman... Ever. You can make one of these if you have … [Read more...]
Here's a pair of diametrically opposed hacks. One makes use of a real instrument to play Rock Band, the other makes use of a game controller to play real music. [Tim] lets us know that his friend figured out how to play Rock Band 2 on expert level by playing flute instead of singing. Of course this works because the game is just looking for the correct frequency for scoring. It makes sense that … [Read more...]
Sure making a robot that plays the game RockBand for you seems a little cheap at first, but no human can possibly hit that 30 triplet note straight ending in a button mashing contest. To finally get his high score [Joe] made a setup to play the game for him, on the iPhone. We've seen some very different Guitar Hero hacks before, but none that had to get around the touch capacitance screen on the … [Read more...]
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