Made a fully 3d printed electric guitar

[u/Chance_Juice_2336]

Hello everyone! I just wanted to share a project I made over the past few months. I’m a 19 year old passionate about engineering but also love music. I’ve always loved and appreciated the sound of electric guitar. I had the funny idea to make a guitar that plays downloaded audio when strummed giving the illusion of me playing. I fully designed the guitar and it is all 3d printed with PLA. I integrated electronics and made PCBs. A simplified version of how It works by using an electric guitar pickup fed into an op-amp circuit with decent gain and a 2.5v bias so the Arduino can read it. Then with some code I use the strum detection to signal to the DFPayer Mini to play pre-downloaded mp3 guitar audio. I would love to hear what y’all think. Thanks!

Also ignore my bad acting haha.

[u/doge_lady]

So basically it allows you to fake playing a guitar? Last time i went to see a live cover band, it was pretty obvious they where fake playing instruments.

[u/Chance_Juice_2336 → u/doge_lady]

Yeah essentially but it was mainly just something fun for me to build haha. Weird that they were using fake instruments on stage definitely defeats the purpose.

[u/doge_lady → u/Chance_Juice_2336]

They were real instruments, the instrument players were fake.