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5 months ago
Hi!
Many of you are already aware of my project to replace all the switches and knobs of an electric guitar by digital circuitry controlled by an Android phone.
Well, thanks to many of you, I have reached a first milestone: I have a working ArduGuitar!
You can read all about it on the ArduGuitar Home Page but for those who want a quick overview here it is:
I ripped all the pots and switches out of an old Ibanez RG 140 guitar and put in a circuit that I made using vactrols and controlled by an Arduino, connected to my Android phone by a cheap JY-MCU bluetooth module.
On the phone I run some Processing code, using the the Ketai library to handle the bluetooth coms.
This allows me to select pickups, change volume and tone, as well as record and activate "preset" configurations, e.g. the "Woman" config that Clapton made famous, by tapping on my phone velcro'd to the top of the guitar!
It works great!
Thanks to you all!
Cheers,
Bob
Many of you are already aware of my project to replace all the switches and knobs of an electric guitar by digital circuitry controlled by an Android phone.
Well, thanks to many of you, I have reached a first milestone: I have a working ArduGuitar!
You can read all about it on the ArduGuitar Home Page but for those who want a quick overview here it is:
I ripped all the pots and switches out of an old Ibanez RG 140 guitar and put in a circuit that I made using vactrols and controlled by an Arduino, connected to my Android phone by a cheap JY-MCU bluetooth module.
On the phone I run some Processing code, using the the Ketai library to handle the bluetooth coms.
This allows me to select pickups, change volume and tone, as well as record and activate "preset" configurations, e.g. the "Woman" config that Clapton made famous, by tapping on my phone velcro'd to the top of the guitar!
It works great!
Thanks to you all!
Cheers,
Bob