Creative uses for the USB Port

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Creative uses for the USB Port

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06-01-2007, 21:37

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Re: Creative uses for the USB Port

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Originally Posted by NeedMoreEngines

A GUITAR HERO CONTROLLER!! come on how cool would that be.

To move the robot you play Smoke on the Water and to operate the arm you play the riff from Crazy Train.

The whammy bar can be the claw grabber.

And to make the robot spontaneously combust you play any Dragonforce solo.

I was talking about that with my sister. lol.

And a couple of years ago we had a bunch of joke ways to control the robot. Like guitar, keyboard, beatboxing, and my favorite, turn tables.

That's right. You scratch records to drive your robot. Haha. So good.

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