Custom Guitar Controller

[stig87]

This is my custom guitar. I made it using a 9 dollar toy guitar from walmart and a street fighter controller(because its digital only...no analog)


view it in action
YouTube Video

[Dahaloman]

Rofl, nice.

[Jonathan_Antillies]

Haha! Reminds me of Guitaroo Man!

Classic, pure classic...

[tibiazak]

if it didn't involve all that sodering and crap that i know nothing about i'd make one for myself like that...

[stig87]

if it didn't involve all that sodering and crap that i know nothing about i'd make one for myself like that...

Yeah it did involve a lot of soldering. But its pretty straight forward. Solder 2 wires from the guitar butttons to each button on the controller.

It was actually my first time soldering anything. So it took us about 2 nights to make it.

We plan on making a wireless version next.

[Nightmare JG]

if it didn't involve all that sodering and crap that i know nothing about i'd make one for myself like that...

Actually, soldering is pretty easy, just find a decent guide online or something and go. Most soldering guns come with some sort of basic instruction as well.

[punkrokr409]

duuuude you need to give me details on how to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!

[stig87]

duuuude you need to give me details on how to do it!!!!!!!!!!!!

Its basically soldering button to wire. in digital pads the buts are simply two pieces of conductive materal side by side where when a button is pressed the current is connected. I chose a guitar that already had buttons in it so that i simply soldered two wires from each button on the controller to the buttons in the guitar. It can be done a little more effeciently than that because buttons share some wires....but in essence thats all. me and my friend plan on making another later. Since there is a demand we will problem document the whole process and make a tutorial or somthing.

[evader1109]

i ahve this old toy guitar, and a old USB joystick, or xbox controller

i took apart the guitar, and the buttons are a board, that looks like the xbox controller d pad and a,b,x,y,black,white buttons

how do i solder/connect wires to this type of thing?

[stig87]

i ahve this old toy guitar, and a old USB joystick, or xbox controller

i took apart the guitar, and the buttons are a board, that looks like the xbox controller d pad and a,b,x,y,black,white buttons

how do i solder/connect wires to this type of thing?

is the pad Digital? or analog. If its digital i can help...... but anlog is another beast.

take pictures of the inside of the usb controller and the board inside your guitar.....send them to [email][email protected][/email]'ll see what advice i could give from there.

as far as an xbox controller goes...most xbox controllers are analog......i used the street fighter controller because its buttons are all digital.

[loonygamer]

Yeah it's easier to make a PS2 Frankentar than a USB one.

[gebbss]

I'm currently making a franken-tar of my own

...dunno if it'll work though, since i'm going to have to do some REALLY precise soldering (I'm going to make the controller from an old keyboard see). I just looked inside the keyboard just a couple days earlier and the contents really shocked me: all the wiring was done on three sheets of plastic!!!!!
I can take some pics of the inside of the keyboard if you're interested.

[hedis]

I can take some pics of the inside of the keyboard if you're interested.

yeah i would like to see it

[punkrokr409]

what if all i have that i'm willing to take apart is just a nes controller? will that work?

[omganinja]

all the wiring was done on three sheets of plastic!!!!!

Probably becasue thats how keyboards are made....