Prepared to see a guitar that’s nothing like anything you’ve ever seen before. Instead of strings, it uses barcodes, and to play it, you don’t need a pick, you need a barcode scanner. It was made by James Bruton, a creative musician.
“I built a guitar with barcodes instead of strings – but it has a few extra features including programmable buttons, pitch bend, and octave and channel shift, which are all controlled by retro game controller joysticks and buttons. It’s based on an Arduino MEGA with a USB host shield and a MIDI shield,” Bruton wrote along with the YouTube video.
If you were wondering, he made this unique guitar using 3-D printed parts and, of course, plenty of creativity and time were involved. Watch the video below if you want to see more. We’re sure you’re gonna love it just as much as we do.
