Introduction: Easiest & Best Frets on Fire Keyboard Ever + Strum Bar

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Easy and cheap mod to create an excellent keyboard for playing the awesome Frets on Fire (Free Guitar Hero PC Clone)

Step 1: Donor Keyboard

I used a standard USB Dell keyboard, the type as shown in the photo... you could use any old keyboard but i liked the minimalist approach of this Dell one...

Step 2: Remove and Cover Unwanted Keys

Remove all the numpad, arrow and pgup,pgdn etc keys... remove all the F keys... remove the ` key and the 6 key...

Replace the backspace \ ] and [ keys with the arrow keys you just removed... much easier to access in the new position...

Replace the F12 key with the Escape key...

Cover all the removed keys with black plastic, i used an old ice cream container lid. Hot glue works best here...

Step 3: Strum Bar

I looked all over the net for a good strum bar design and couldnt find one... so i had to resort to icecream sticks and hot glue... basically build a little 'T' and glue it upside down on the shift key so it over hang onto the enter key -- DO NOT GLUE ONTO THE ENTER KEY--- otherwise it wont work like a 'strum'

Hopefully the photos tell a thousand words here... the second one is painted....

Step 4: Paint the Frets

This step is optional but it does look cool... paint the 1,2,3,4,5 keys to match the fret colours in FoF..

I used MDF primer as a base coat and waterbased acrylic as a top coat... the blue could have been better... looks good in real life...

Step 5: Downlaod FoF

Now go download Frets on Fire and change the key settings to match the keyboard... (frets, arrows, esc)

http://fretsonfire.sourceforge.net/

Get the RF-mod too, then go to thepiratebay.org and d/l some song packs....!