Crazy J guitar machine
p2pnet.net News:- Meet Crazy J.
It’s a guitar playing machine created as a part of the Georgia Tech graduate Mechatronics class (6405), by Jason Lawrence, Turner Howard and Susan Knueven.
It’s actually two mechanical systems interacting to play a range of 29 musical notes, say the builders on their site.
“A plucking mechanism with six independently controlled picks is mounted over the body of the guitar and a fingering mechanism with an array of 23 fingertips is mounted over the first four frets of the fingerboard.”
The plucking mechanism mimics the action of a harpsichord and the small plastic fingertips press the strings down to the frets to play the range of notes covered by the first four frets of the guitar. Each fingertip is mounted on a linear bearing actuated by a solenoid through a horizontal lever arm.
Head on over for the site for full details and in the meanwhile, how does Crazy J match up to the real thing?
Judge for yourself.
Here’s its version of Eric Clapton’s
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July 8th, 2005 at 3:38 pm
Eric wouldn’t be impressed =) But it’s still pretty cool.
July 8th, 2005 at 5:54 pm
Finally! A guitar that I can play!!!!
July 8th, 2005 at 6:18 pm
pretty cool. disney will probably grab this for disneyland country bears robots and replace the piped-in music.