Wii Guitar Hero axe transformed into MIDI controller

[wraggster]

Whatever the DS can do, Wii can do better, right? Apparently Dave agrees with said mantra, as he has converted a Wii Guitar Hero axe into a full-fledged MIDI controller. As in, there's a 5-pin jack down there and everything. In its current state, you can play two octaves of an eight note scale at at time, alter the keys / octaves, change tonal modes, use the whammy bar to bend the pitch and blow the minds of electrical engineering buds you still see on a regular basis. Granted, this mod isn't exactly for the faint of heart, but feel free to hit the read link if you're hacker enough to handle it.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/19/w...di-controller/

[vicious1988]

Somebody did this before using a custom program and GlovePIE scripts (I think they used a Wii GH controller). It was pretty awesome and they didn't have to mod their controller.