Upon assembly we found some areas did not go together as smoothly as planned. The biggest problem was the strings and accelerometer input into the lower arduino; the values read did not make sense, and did not match voltmeter readings made on the inputs directly. This was finally resolved when we found the Arduino v.17 program to have a bug in the computer software side. When this was resolved, the readings cleared up. Other more minor issues in were:
a) The body structure was not sufficiently reinforced at the body-neck connection, and the neck had become quite heavy with the upper arduino and voltage-devider fret board. This was fixed with a neck-body reinforcement made of balsa, wood glue and through-bolts.
b) The strings were not sufficiently 'pulled-down' and an open fingering did not give consistant results. Resolved with different pulled-down resistor values
c) The accelerometer was not functioning properly. This was cleared up when the datasheet was examined and the part was found to function on 3V instead of the 5V we were running it at.
A video of our final product can be seen below:
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