1. Uncovering a childhood memory at the thrift store!
I love thrift stores. There’s something magical about walking into one of these places and uncovering a treasure or seeing something from your childhood resurface. The latter is what happened to me when I went to my local thrift store last weekend. The thing that caught my eye this time was Guitar Hero.
Guitar Hero was a video game released by RedOctane back in 2005. The main goal of the game is to use this plastic guitar controller to hit colorful notes that would fly at you on the screen. It was all the rage back in the day. Memories flooded of me hanging out with my friends, enjoying music from Aerosmith to Coldplay to Metallica in a new interactive way! I had to have it. And for four dollars, the price was right!
But before I could reconnect with my childhood, there was a problem: The Whammy bar was broken. The Whammy Bar is the metal rod that sticks out the base of the guitar. It is supposed to stick up, and you can press it down repeatedly to “bend” the pitch of notes in the game, which earned you extra points (and was always super fun to wail on!) Well, the whammy bar that came with my controller was a little bit more…. Sad. Take a look:
As a final deed, I also gave the guitar a good cleaning and removed all the stickers and decals…. Looks like it just came right out of the box!
Within a day, I was able to turn thrift store junk into hours of amusement using the power of SOLIDWORKS combined with the power of Markforged! Now, let’s see if I can beat my old high scores…
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Author: Robert Maldonado, Application Engineer at DesignPoint