Maker Jeri Ellsworth reinvents the '80s rock band keytar by melding together a bass and a Commodore 64 into a playable instrument. Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a ...

Jeri Ellsworth is pictured above holding her one-of-a-kind Commodore 64 bass guitar and keytar. Ellsworth is a Valve Software employee and electronics genius who is learning how to play the bass ...

The Commodore 64 has long been a staple of the chiptune and circuit bending scenes, but it’s not often that you see the old computer converted into a fully-fledged musical instrument. That’s exactly ...

Jeri Ellsworth has created an awesome hack using a Commodore 64 and transformed it into a C64 Bass “keytar”, which was unveiled by Ellsworth at this year’s Makers Fair Bay Area. The fantastically ...

Shredz64 is an implementation of Guitar Hero on that humble cream-colored block of plastic, the Commodore 64. It takes more than software to get it working: the hacker, Toni Westbrook, also created an ...

We've already seen the Guitar Hero controller hooked up to a PC, but hardware hacker Toni has decided up the difficultly level even further, endeavoring to wire the ubiquitous plastic axe to his ...