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Rock Band Drum Kit Modded

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the make-it-manly dept.

Brett "Buzz" Dawson writes "Seeing all of the Guitar Hero guitar mods I thought it would be an interesting change of pace to mod a full-sized drum kit for use as a Rock Band game controller. With everything that I build I take lots of pictures to document the build process so here is the full build of my drum kit." Fortunately at my house Kathleen has been doing the drumming, so I don't think I need to go to these extremes to handle the abuse. I'm more interested in mods that let you use the original drums as a real instrument like the guitar mods that are floating out there. The tiny bits of drum solo time in Rock Band don't satisfy my internal Keith Moon.

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  1. Re:More Cowbell by AndGodSed · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yet more cowbell! MORE MORE! A guy on a forum I frequent did a cool drum solo with lots of cowbell...

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  2. Re:Really by log1385 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's about video games and hardware hacks. Why not?

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  3. slashdotted by B_un1t · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    me thinks the link's been /.'ed

  4. Re:A friend got Rockband by Lordnerdzrool · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Unfortunately, I sometimes find using the Bush Doctrine very effective in Civ 4. Pissed off a neighbor because your religion is a little different and you decided to not give them tribute? Suddenly you see several war units on your borders even though their country is several miles away?

    A: Tactical Nuke them and invade their homeland

    B: Let them destroy a city of yours, THEN, tactical nuke them and invade their homeland.

    A seems best for me, indeed.

    When I advance technologically above my neighbors, I usually attack them and take things like oil access and uranium, or in earlier ages iron, copper and horses to keep them from matching me. Usually just enough to create a nice meaty vassal state that can deter land invasions from further away countries. Often by mid-game I will control 1/3 of the map in vassals in moderate difficulty settings. I usually force them to be the same religion as I am so the relationship improves over time, just in case they do grow a little powerful (can't invade vassals) and it helps if I own the Apostolic Palace, which I usually rush to get control of.

    Of course, this all seems a little off topic.