| Group |
2018-28 |
Status |
completed |
| Title |
Self-Playing Guitar |
| Supervisor |
A. Sebak and T. Obuchowicz |
| Description |
This project involves the design and implementation of a self-playing electric guitar. Principles of electromagnetics will be used to achieve the movement of the the guitar strings without using any physical mechanism. The motion of the string will be due to electromagnetic forces. The movement of the guitar string will then induce an electric current in another coil. This current will then undergo amplication and then fed to a standard electric guitar amplifier. Instead of using the standard technique of fretting a particular string along the neck, motors shall be used to adjust the tension in each string. In this manner, the guitar shall play “itself” with no visible mechanism. Software and microcontrollers will be used to control the motors, and the motion of the strings. |
| Requirement |
Electromagnetics, power electronics, programming, microcontrollers, VHDL |
| Tools |
DC power supplies, oscilloscopes, multimeters, FPGA board, microcontoller with its host developemnt
environment, coils, inductors, electric guitar pickups, electric guitar amplifier |
| Number of Students |
4 |
| Students |
Ahmed Hmouz
Xuting Zhang
Thilakasenan Samarasenan
Abdelrahman Shehata |
| Comments: |
Dr. Abdel Sebak
Email: abdo@ece.concordia.ca
Room: EV15.179
Tel: 848-2424 ext. 4082
Mr. Ted Obuchowicz
Email: ted@ece.concordia.ca
Room: EV5.110
Tel: 848-2424 ext. 3069 |
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