Project
# | Title | Team Members | TA | Documents | Sponsor |
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4 | MIDI controlled slide guitar Area Award: Controls Area Award: Art and Music |
Angad Bector Joel Spadin Ruichen Zhao |
appendix0.zip design_document0.pdf final_paper0.document presentation0.presentation proposal0.pdf video0.mp4 |
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Our project is a slide guitar-like instrument with a single string. A microcontroller reads MIDI input and controls two motors to play the instrument. One motor moves a metal bar along the string to control the pitch and the second motor controls a wheel of guitar picks to strike the string. A guitar pickup convert the string vibrations to an analog signal, to which the microcontroller reads and applies audio effects. The resulting digital audio is converted back to an analog signal and sent to speakers. High resolution video available at http://youtu.be/TzvvpVJB7MI |