Gutarist, hacker, as well as mustache enthusiast [David Neevel] brought together method as well lots of pieces of hardware in buy to utilize his electric guitar as a computer keyboard.

So let’s dig into the home of cards he developed for the project. It starts off with the guitar which has been fitted with an extra pickup to interface with a Roland GR-33 synthesizer pedal. That outputs a MIDI signal, which lots of hackers would have linked to the computer as well as parsed with a basic script. however not [David], he linked it to an Arduino by means of an optisolator. Well that’s not as well ridiculous, right? Don’t you believe he’ll just parse the MIDI signals as well as push them to the computer by means of the Arduino’s USB port? Wrong! He equates the MIDI signals into combinations for a huge relay board which is emulating the crucial matrix of an old USB keyboard. however as you can see in the demo video after the jump it works rather well.

If you’re a lot more of the drumming kind there’s an electric drum set version of this hack too.

[Thanks Dale]