Easiest & Best Frets on Fire Keyboard Ever + Strum bar

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...

Comments

[bbvbcb]

Have a look at this instructable, its like an advance version of your instructable, and more better version!!!
http://www.instructables.com/id/Guitar-Hero-Keyboard/

[!Andrew_Modder!]

lol thats actually pretty nice.

BUT =D.. since i have a PS3, i just plug my ps3 guitar hero controller in my pc and i can play frets on fire w-o any hassle :D

[qwerty29]

does that work with a ps2 guitar?

[cynnie1]

can you please tell me how did you do it? i probably wont check this page again XD so please i beg you send me an e mail and tell me cause i plug the controller but the guitar does not works please tell me [e-mail]

[divxnz]

Thanks... yea that would be sweet but for cheap asses like me you cant beat FoF..!

[conradev]

I Fretted Boat 'N Hoes with EOF, its not that hard though. heres the song folder:

http://rapidshare.com/files/209324601/Boats_and_Hoes.zip

P.S. ITS F""KING AWESOME

[firesketch]

Thats my keyboard! And nice, but I'm lazy, so I'll just paint the keys :3

[PKM]

Nice! FoF is the win for cheap Guitar Hero fans... I remapped mine to 1-5 rather than F1-F5 because I hate that little gap. I also remapped strum to down arrow and left arrow, I can't stand the strum bar on real GH controllers but this way I can tap with my first two fingers like I'm playing a bass. The combination plays merry devil with navigating the menus though, so I might change it to something different like keypad 0 and . or . and / The worst bit about using the numbers as frets is when I want to put a great run or percentage on the end of a high score (my PBs are 400+ and 100% on Normal :D ) and pressing 1 is the same as pressing enter.

[rsn4ke]

Love it! tommorow im goin to prepare stuff for this. i'll buy the cheapest USB keyboard in town for 99,-SKK (3.3 €) get some plastic, some superglue and begin devastation of a brand new keyboard :D

[divxnz]

Sweet... post a photo when you're done...!

[rsn4ke]

it won\t be today because all the shops were closed, so i'll get it tommorow or so :D

[joedynamite]

i swear this is true... my cousin helped produce this game. he made the the part for how u controll the game with the keyboard like that. if u want one i can hook u up with a gaming keyboard with the guitar strap knobs on it and with a strap. my cousins produceing that for the new frets on fire coming out on march 15 2009

[thatguyruste]

Pssshhh...Fret on Fire is ghey...why don't you learn to play a REAL keyboard...GAWWW!!!

(...hopes everyone notes the ironic sarcasm...)

[TheMadScientist]

DO WANT!

[RiddleOfSphinx]

Love Frets on Fire, but the one single most irritable thing I hate about it is that GAT DAYUM ESC KEY !!! :P...lol But, if you cover that key, then how do you ecape to the menu and such, just askin' :)

[Father Christmas]

i wouold say, change the command in the settings.

[RiddleOfSphinx]

True, that "wouold" be the easiest thing to say I guess. ;) Aside from yanking the button out completely...lol

[Father Christmas]

thats mena you didnt have to quote me!! lol

[RiddleOfSphinx]

Me so saw lee ...lol

[Father Christmas]

thats badass. i am off to make one now, assuming i find an old keyboard lying around

[JamesW]

Okay, firsties - I say awesome. BUT I wanna know how exactly does the popsicle stick strum bar work? Does it push down on one, the other, or both? I made my keytar based on yours, but instead of using a key based strum, I just stripped down a PS2 controller, cut the motors and the pads off, and superglued the joysticks and base down to my keyboard. I might have to make an instructable for that...but anyways, I wanted to know that.

[divxnz]

It presses the enter key down to 'strum' the shift key essentially just tilts... feels like strumming with your thumb...

[knex_builder_freak]

wow this is awesome im gonna do some day

[MilotisX]

This is sick and all, but u can't hold down three keys....l besides that this is sick, i might try it