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This makes me so happy, because I have totally made my new side project lately lol

I just recently turned an old guitar hero controller into a fully functioning midi controller and it took so a little time. It actually makes me laugh

I swear the bar with AI now is just the craziest things that you can think of

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> turned an old guitar hero controller into a fully functioning midi controller

That sounds like fun. Do you have anything written up about the project?

I wasn’t planning on it, but it could be kind of fun to do a write up

I mean, a quick Google search shows that the web is absolutely inundated with articles and how-to guides on turning guitar hero controllers into MIDI controllers. It seems like a pretty common project.

Oh 100%! But this still ended up being super fun, and I did mine differently with micro python and a knock off raspberry pi pico (cheaper on Amazon plus usb c) not to mention custom modes (keytar, strum)

It’s definitely not rocket science, but I have enjoyed having more control of it directly, as a musician, to tune it to what actually makes it make sense and be legitimately playable

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