I..uh...this happened tonight. All because of a dead switch.

@sudocode What? And, NO! GTFO!

Ok I'm just about to go to work, when I get off I'll explain everything

Narrator: and he has been working for four days straight

@kurast Fuck, my bad. I've either been at work, asleep, or busy doing something.

Anyways, my friend had a wired Guitar Hero guitar controller, but the strumming wasn't working. I decided to take a look at it, see if I could figure out what was wrong with it. Turned out one of the switches was broken internally, so rather than ordering another switch, waiting some time, and just soldering it on, we decided to take the switch board out of a different guitar that was broken in another way.

The thing with that switch board, is that it didn't fit. So I spent some time brainstorming how to mount it in there. Eventually I came up with the idea to mount it to the original board and screw that in, but doing it normally would just leave the switches too close to the strum bar. He had the idea to basically cut a hole in the original board where the solder points would line up on the other board so it would sit flush. And that's what he did. He spent 20 minutes with a pocket knife cutting the hole out. We also ended up using little sticker pads to keep it secure on the board because we didn't have anything else.

Yes we could have done it differently. Yes we could have (probably should have) ordered a new switch (it was just an ALPS switch). But ya know what? We wanted it to work, and we wanted it to fucking work right then.

Holy fuck I love this. And I hate this. All at once.

It's tech Gore and makes me wince.

But if it works then this is what hacking is all about. Making things work in the most "wtf! How is that even a thing?" Ways possible.

Pure beauty.