SHREDBOARD - aka Gui-type Hero for Ubuntu

This is a python tool that lets you treat a standard Nintendo Wii Guitar Hero as a chordal keyboard. It's very silly and probably useless, but surprisingly fun at the same time.

Installation:

1. Get Ubuntu up and running (other distros will probably work fine but I don't have any to hand)

2. You'll need to install python, xdotool and cwiid-python with a command like

sudo aptitude install python xdotool cwiid-python

3. Go into the /src/ directory and type "python sb.py", then pretty much immediately press the 1 and 2 buttons on the wii controller at the same time. It should connect.

I played with the letter config a fair amount, and settled on AEIOU as the single five buttons, then spread the other letters out primarily by distribution, but also by similarity of letter (b & d have the same shape, as do p & q and m & w). Keeping Dvorak in mind, I tried to keep the th, sh, ch combinations close and near the red button. Suggestions for improvements always welcome, obviously.

" " = 00000 "a" = 10000 "e" = 01000 "i" = 00100 "o" = 00010 "u" = 00001 "t" = 11000 "s" = 01100 "r" = 00110 "f" = 00011 "h" = 10100 "l" = 01010 "v" = 00101 "c" = 10010 "k" = 01001 "n" = 11100 "g" = 01110 "y" = 00111 "d" = 10110 "b" = 01011 "p" = 11010 "q" = 01101 "j" = 10011 "x" = 10101 "m" = 11110 "w" = 01111 "z" = 10111

The stick has comma, full stop, delete and Upper-Case-The-Next-Letter. Hold down the red button and the stick acts as arrow keys.

Whammy bar is Enter.

I've not done anything with the plus and minus yet.