I started out with a lot of different ideas about how to make the buttons. I never figured how to get the neck off, which definitely would have made things easier.
On the inside, it is much more cheaply made, with no shielding and a lot of stuff permanently glued that you could normally take apart. I never actually played it, but you can feel that it is quite a bit lighter than a Strat. The “Drive” guitar looks exactly like a Strat cosmetically. Sixty bucks later I was ready to start cutting: So I went back out on a pawn shop hunt and found this black Chinese Strat knock-off with the brand name “Drive”. So I fixed it and it plays beautifully (thanks Guitar Center dude, I’m sorry I didn’t use it after all your help). After coming quite close, I could not bring myself to start cutting on it. The first guitar I chose for the project was actually a new Stratocaster that had been damaged and needed some repair. I remembered that some guys from the guitar hero message boards had converted their original PS2 guitar controllers to wireless (before a wireless version was available) by stuffing the guts of a handheld wireless PS2 controller into the body of a guitar hero controller.ĥ) It occurred to me that I could do the same thing with a wireless PS3 controller, but I thought “Why not go all the way and stuff it in the body of a real guitar? How hard could that be? I bet I could bang that out in no time!”Ħ) After many, many late nights of drilling, soldering, gluing and cursing, it finally works! The PS3 output looks far less grainy and blurry on this setup.Ĥ) It turns out that you can play Guitar Hero on the PS3 using the handheld wireless PS3 game controllers. Even the lower resolution PS2 games look much better on it, because I play on a very large screen with about 50 feet of video cable in my ceiling, going to an overhead projector. I was going to work each day with my hand aching and curled up in the “claw” position.Ģ) The Playstation 3 came out and was supposed to be able to play PS2 games, but alas, there was no way to connect the Guitar Hero controllers to it.ģ) I ripped the PS2 out of my entertainment center anyway, and installed the shiny new PS3. These games do a great job of making you feel like you are really playing amazing guitar licks with the real bands.
For those if you who don’t know the story, here is a brief description of the events that led us here:ġ) I became an obsessive player of the Guitar Hero games for the Playstation 2 console.
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