NXT Electric Guitar

[Capt. Kirk]

Some old news but I see that nobody posted it (via search option).

Or is this because nobody liked it...

More at "push me"

Building Instructions at "push me"

Programming Instructions at "push me"

Video at "

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[The Rancor]

lol! That's amazing how it works like that with the ultrasonic sensor.

just the position of the bar and an enter key - no strings.

Sort of reminds me of a Guitar Hero guitar

Now nxtprograms, play me Dragonforce on that guitar! ( )

[prateek]

thats so cool, i want NXT just for this

[Guss]

Excellent !^^ original use of a NXT, that's great!

[DLuders]

[bUMP]

Here is a

(by kalum horrocks) that shows this Lego Mindstorms NXT Electric Guitar in action:

Edited February 2, 2013 by DLuders

[tibivi]

I have build this too a long time ago' but I was thinking to build it again

It was really cool

Thanks for posting this!

Tibivi

[legowarriorscoach]

Hello,

My students have built this electric guitar in open robotics lab but we cannot for the life of us figure out how to get the program to work. We downloaded the program and understand we are supposed to modify data in the various fret test blocks, but don't understand why only the only thing appearing on the screen is "A" and only one chord will play. We built the standard electric guitar as shown in the NXT 1.0 online tutorial, so what values should we be entering in the program?? What does the 75 refer to? 75 what? inches? Why is this even brought up since the space between the ultrasonic sensor and the sliding plate of the guitar, if built to specs, is only 11.5"? https://www.nxtprograms.com/guitar/steps.html#Program

Any help you can give us would be greatly appreciated!!

Thanks in advance

[Milan]

Hi @legowarriorscoach

Welcome to EB.

The author hasn't been active for 5 years (you can hover over their name to see it), so it is unlikely that he will answer it.
I will leave this open, since it is for your students, but please try not to revive topics so old.

[2GodBDGlory]

On the topic of guitars, I built a mechanism a while back that fit onto an acoustic guitar that would just strum for you while you did the chords, at variable speed. It wasn't useful (it wasn't intended to be), but it was fun.