Activision

2008-2010

This one was special.

We made the guitar, the electronics and firmware for Guitar Hero, DJ Hero, Skylanders, and a few others.

Tens of millions of guitars later and I'm only okay at the game. Fortunately, I was top-ranked in DJ Hero for approximately 2 hours post-launch.

I'm particularly proud of building a hardware/software platform that could handle everything from a fishing rod to a guitar.


My video game credits

Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero 5
Guitar Hero 6 - 10% BOM cost reduction!
Guitar Hero 6 - I wrote the firmware to enable the cost down.
Guitar Hero 6 - My firmware enabled using a single processor for all controllers
Guitar Hero 6 - Which was useful, because the processor had no Flash memory.
But the firmware went into (nearly) everything
This ran my code.
DJ Hero - The highest rated Activision rhythm game
DJ Hero - This ran my firmware too.
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This didn't run my firmware, but we are missing a fishing rod, so I am counting one.
The first light gun for Xbox 360
This ran my firmware too.
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