James Bruton is a guy behind this awesome and unique project. The guitar he made uses barcodes instead of strings and he plays it with a scanner. His guitar also has a few hidden features they allow him to change volume and pitch.
“I built a guitar with barcodes instead of strings – but it has a few extra features including programmable buttons, pitch bend, and octave and channel shift, which are all controlled by retro game controller joysticks and buttons. It’s based on an Arduino MEGA with a USB host shield and a MIDI shield,” he wrote underneath the YouTube video.
Barcode scanners are made to read unique information based on the line pattern. Bruton uses this to make a MIDI guitar. The body of the instrument was made using 3-D printed components and a lot of creativity.
You can see and hear it in action in the video below. We simply love projects like this, how about you?
