Simone Giertz

And what you do in a real guitar is you have the little, it's like measuring the vibration or the change in the.

Yeah, you're measuring how the guitar is vibrating.

And you can't really do that because I can't have a receiving sensor because the guitar strings are going to move in relationship to that because you don't have like a rigid neck.

And this is like, yeah, this was my first electronics project.

I was a little fledging baby maker.

But what I decided was to use capacitive touch.

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Because that is independent on if the guitar strings are moving in relationship to something or in relation to something.

So basically there was just this little Bluetooth Arduino board that this company Punch Through Design made.

So that was how I found them.

And I measured the capacitive touch.

So like whenever...

The guitar string was measured.

There was this little microcontroller that was like, oh, my God, a guitar string got measured or touched.

And then that sent a signal over Bluetooth to my phone.

And I built a little iPhone app that interpreted those Bluetooth signals and then checked what type of chord I was holding on the screen and then played the coherent sound.

I honestly cannot believe that I pulled it off because I think I was – ignorance was definitely bliss because that was, like, yeah, the first hardware project I'd ever built, the first iPhone app I'd ever programmed.

And, like, now if somebody was like, hey, I want this to be my first project, I would probably be like, oh, that's a lot.

But –

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