Inventor-66@comcast.net wrote:

Hi yet again,

I would like to announce the birth of a bouncing baby website, my Guitar Motion Sensor project site. You may recall me writing at least one long, excited email about my plans to do a guitar HID project. Well, I'm getting really close to buying the parts and out of frustration waiting for finances to line up plus a desire to share the knowledge, I created a three-page website with all of my plans and reasoning about the project. The url is here:

http://www.freedomodds.com/music/gms.html

Actually after consulting forum contributors, especially Kassen, I have the hardware boiled down to two circuit boards that will cost $35 each, and a mere five solder connections. Then I'll mount the gizmo on my guitar's headstock and run a long USB cable down the length of the guitar and to the computer. I tried to be humorous and light-hearted in my writing style so people would enjoy reading it. I'd appreciate any comments about the site especially regarding project construction details or possible gotchas / errors.

Plus I'll note that my website traffic has more than doubled in the few days since I put the site up, so I believe that people are interested in guitar effects HID. Making the world a better place via ChucK - kinda feels good, eh? Cheers!

Now that is about the coolest idea ever! Good luck with it! I'll definitely be keeping a keen eye on this one. I have a one-man music show idea in mind, and something like accelerometers on a guitar is a good fit for that. So far, most of my ideas involve embedding piezo triggers in a variety of things, including clothes. -- Darren Landrum