I've wanted to make a real working MIDI guitar out of cheap toy guitar for a long time. I finally have the boards and most of the skills to do it, now I just need a good vessel for my creativity. To find that perfect container for my electronic musical madness, I tore apart three different toy guitars to find one that has the kinds of basic parts that I can hook into and hack easily.
This first version is going to be a standalone MIDI guitar. The sound will come from a MIDI board inside the guitar. There's no need for a computer or software. It's basically a glorified toy guitar, but with a lot more control. I have hooked up my MIDI board up to an Arduino and gotten them to work. It was a lot of fun, but tapping on buttons just wasn't as much fun as shredding on a guitar. I finally decided to take the next step.
Check out the video to see what I find inside these thriftstore toy guitars. And stay tuned for project updates.
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