But playing on the keyboard was a drag. Instead of buying a controller he built his own hacked Guitar Hero controller from a scrapped keyboard and a toy guitar. The plastic toy he started with ...

The second I placed the PDP Riffmaster controller in my hand for the first time, I was taken back to playing the original Guitar Hero 20 years ago. In a flashback that wouldn't feel out of place ...

with an Adafruit Nunchucky breakout board allowing the Guitar Hero controller to be connected via jumper wires to the Raspberry Pi’s IO pins. Communication is via I2C, and is easy to work with ...

Its design also appears identical to the Guitar Hero controller Hyperkin released in 2009 during the Wii era, which led to ...