“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?

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If you’re a fan of the show, you’re definitely going to love this. Hear it below.

“So, my wife really likes Law & Order SVU (Special Victims Unit). So, I figured why not take the Law & Order theme song that we all know and love and make it into a fun music video, done only using acoustic guitars,” he wrote along the video.

You can see the original show intro below. Did Rucci do it justice?

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A guy named Ralph Jay Triumfo, who gained around 400,000 Youtube subscribes thanks to his guitar covers, decided to do his own version of Bohemian Rhapsody using chopsticks and playing the song note by note, and then editing everything into one video.

“This is the most difficult and most time consuming video I’ve ever made,” he writes in the caption.

You can see this epic cover below.

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“I saw a lot of people online making bowls out of colored pencils and I thought that was really cool but I wanted to make something that I can actually utilize and enjoy more so than a bowl when it’s finished,” he shares. “Since I play guitar, I thought this would be a cool project that would accomplish that goal. I decided on making a (Fender) Stratocaster styled electric guitar… This was the first guitar I’ve ever built”

“It was surprisingly not as difficult as I would have imagined,” this creative guy continued. “The only real struggles didn’t come as much with the actual guitar building as much as it did with the colored pencil material. By that I mean, the color of the colored pencil would smear when sanded with high grit sandpaper and it looked awful. So I had to figure out a way to achieve good wood/lead color without smear (which I detail in the video at the end of this post).”

Check out the video below to see the whole process.

The post Guy Builds a Guitar Using 1200 Pencils for $500 appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“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?

The post Guy Creates a Guitar That Uses Barcodes Instead of Strings appeared first on PlayJunkie.

If you’re a fan of the show, you’re definitely going to love this. Hear it below.

“So, my wife really likes Law & Order SVU (Special Victims Unit). So, I figured why not take the Law & Order theme song that we all know and love and make it into a fun music video, done only using acoustic guitars,” he wrote along the video.

You can see the original show intro below. Did Rucci do it justice?

The post Dave Rucci Covers the “Law and Order: SVU” Theme on Acoustic Guitar appeared first on PlayJunkie.

A guy named Ralph Jay Triumfo, who gained around 400,000 Youtube subscribes thanks to his guitar covers, decided to do his own version of Bohemian Rhapsody using chopsticks and playing the song note by note, and then editing everything into one video.

“This is the most difficult and most time consuming video I’ve ever made,” he writes in the caption.

You can see this epic cover below.

The post Listen to “Bohemian Rhapsody” Cover Made with Chopsticks appeared first on PlayJunkie.

“I saw a lot of people online making bowls out of colored pencils and I thought that was really cool but I wanted to make something that I can actually utilize and enjoy more so than a bowl when it’s finished,” he shares. “Since I play guitar, I thought this would be a cool project that would accomplish that goal. I decided on making a (Fender) Stratocaster styled electric guitar… This was the first guitar I’ve ever built”

“It was surprisingly not as difficult as I would have imagined,” this creative guy continued. “The only real struggles didn’t come as much with the actual guitar building as much as it did with the colored pencil material. By that I mean, the color of the colored pencil would smear when sanded with high grit sandpaper and it looked awful. So I had to figure out a way to achieve good wood/lead color without smear (which I detail in the video at the end of this post).”

Check out the video below to see the whole process.

The post Guy Builds a Guitar Using 1200 Pencils for $500 appeared first on PlayJunkie.