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Explorer Guitar
Explorer Guitar
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There is a fairly new game series for PS2 (soon for XBOX 360) called Guitar Hero. Like DDR, it's a rhythm game, and you hit notes with a guitar-shaped controller.

I gutted the real controller, taking out the electronic boards and special working components, and placed them inside a lego chassis of my design. It's modeled after a Gibson Explorer guitar (renamed X-Plorer a few years ago). Check my brickshelf or Google "Explorer guitar" for a reference picture.

The lego guitar controller works just as well as the real controller, all components work correctly, from the Strum Bar to the Whammy Bar to the seve buttons on the guitar. Hopefully, I'll have a YouTube video of it in action very soon.



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   The real guitar, the lego guitar, and the Guitar Hero Game case.



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   The two guitars side-by-side to show just how small the real controller is.



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   Partial fretboard, the Strum Bar, the Whammy Bar, the pick-ups, the scratch-plate, and the Start, Select, and the fake button.



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   Comparing the fret buttons of the real and lego controllers. The lego buttons are just a little bit narrower.



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   The neck shape, with the function-less detail of the guitar, colored pegs for the non-existent "guitar strings."



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   The electric board for the fret buttons.



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   The wiring and boards for the whole guitar.



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   Wiring, the Whammy Bar mechanism, the tilt sensor, and the Start/Select board.



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   The Strum Bar and its electronic board.



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   The overall open chassis.





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March 27, 2008

Awesome, it would be so cool if you took the colors off the frets. it would look so cool. I mean by now you probly don't look at the controller when you play. Just a suggestion though
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(from vallejo)
February 9, 2008

thats heca cool that it works at first i thought it was a real guitar.but guitar hero is realy old series i have #3
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February 8, 2008

Awsome I wish it really looked like that
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(from U.S.A)
February 5, 2008

I love this, I'm a big fan of the GH seris. I have one question though, is any of this glued? Thanks!
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(from cmsl1993.com)
January 3, 2008

wow! its cool you build you own but you should have got another guitar just in case the Lego one brakes the wires or circuit boards. do you still have it build? i would like to see more of the in-side and how you keep the boards & wires in place. great moc.
Brit
(from Texas)
December 23, 2007

Any chance I could pay to get one of these?
cheese greater
(from teh moon)
December 18, 2007

ooooooooooooooooooooommmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmgggggggggggggggggggggggggggg! this.....is.....so beyond incredible on the rock out scale
Fritz B.
(from Florida)
September 29, 2007

First off, this is probably the best use of Legos I've seen in awhile -- VERY Impresive :P . I was wondering...Did you personally order all the pieces or did you just use pieces that you already had? I've been trying to make the Gibson Flying V, but I don't have enough pieces for the whole chassis, which is why I'm asking where you got all your pieces from :/ . Write back if possible, Thanks.
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(from West Virginia, USA)
September 10, 2007

screw you, john.
John
August 20, 2007

im not gonna lie, this is pretty awesome but when do you ask yourself, "do i have too much time on my hands?"
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August 7, 2007

ok, i am a big fan of guitar hero 2 and ever since i saw this its taken over my view of the game____im going to guess that this guitar is fully functional just like your other one. that is awsome____the little guitar the game gives you is too small for me to be confortable with and i need a bigger guitar to finish the game____so, i want to build one of your creation guitars myself now, and was wondering if you could walk me through it or at least help me with some tips____ i'd make it a defferent color so it wouldnt look like yours and i'd post it on this site____thanks a bunch, please email me back if you can
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June 19, 2007

that's incredible!!! so it realy works, huh? Also, it's obviously been awhile since you made this considering Guitar Hero 2 is out and on 360
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(from Virginia, U.S.A.)
April 14, 2007

Amazing. A fantastic job.
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(from Australia)
December 7, 2006

Very nice! You have done a great job in approximating the shape of the explorer - & it sure as heck beats the game controler version ;)
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(from Portugal)
December 7, 2006

Great Job!Specialy for someone like me that Love LEGO and GUITARS! Keep Up with the Good Work!
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(from England)
December 7, 2006

WOW thats amazing, and that it works is just amazing.
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(from kevin)
December 6, 2006

very good job, when i look for good creations (this being one of them), i look for functionality, and man did u go above and beyond, one queston though, did u model it after a Gibson X-Plorer or a Gibson X-Plorer New Century, because on normal X-Plorers, they dont have a pick guard that big, but if u make a pick guard for the whole body, u can call it a New Century, and a couple of white plates on the head, on top of the nut, just go to the Gibson web site and look at it for reference, but if u got some chrome plates, that would be even better since the Gibson New Century guitar line use mirror pick guards instead of regular white ones, try it
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(from Edmonton, AB)
December 6, 2006

Wow! That is so cool, and a huge bonus that it actually works! You've got me thinking of Lego stuff that I could build that actually works...
Alphonse
December 6, 2006

WHOAH! That's incredible! I really admire how you managed to make it actually function as a controller while making it look awesome at the same time. Great work!



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