Introduction

We were given the task of creating a musical instrument with some sort of haptic feedback for the user. We first did individual design proposals and were organized into groups based on our ideas in those proposals. Based on our group's proposals, and one member's familiarity with acoustic guitars, we decided that our electronic instrument would be heavily inspired by a six-string acoustic guitar. In our group we found strengths especially in Arduino programming and MIDI/pd communication, and decided to use these as hardware and synthesizer.


The main components that we wanted to create was strumming of the "strings", creating different notes based on the string's position in the frets, and add light and vibrations to correspond with the note being played.

The members of our group are:

Kevin Melotti

Sean Murphy

Lisa Perez