drkzrg / wii-guitar-hero-adapter

This project connects an old Wii guitar using an Arduino Uno to a Windows computer.

Wii Guitar Hero adapter for Windows

This project connects an old Wii guitar using an Arduino Uno to a Windows computer.

Warning

I am a complete beginner in C and as a result this code is written poorly using many code samples. A lot of things can be improved, but I wanted something working.

Guitar to Arduino Uno connection

I bought a Dock Connector Port on Aliexpress because I don't want to spoil my guitar. I tin solder the connector with some wire.

The Arduino Uno

Then I connected the wires to the Arduino using the following picture. There are two 3.3v pins and only pin 3 is useful to detect the devices.

After that, I wrote the Arduino code using the NintendoExtensionCtrl lib and the example code.

Handling data on the Computer

Finally, I connected to my guitar the Arduino and wrote a C program which read the serial COM port to get the guitar data and then send keyboard inputs to Windows.

TODO

I want to remove the Arduino Uno and connect the guitar directly to the computer.