Play an Acoustic Guitar with a Raspberry Pi
summary
A Raspberry Pi controls a robotic rig that plays an acoustic guitar using servos to position a plectrum and actuators to bend strings, reading MusicXML exports from MuseScore for playback. The software is a Java backend running on Dropwizard with Pi4J for GPIO and an Angular UI, all hosted on the single Pi; the prototype works live but suffers missed notes, calibration drift, CPU and power limits and requires tempo tuning.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:27Pico prototype
- 6:01Hardware and servos
- 10:17Pi 3 software
- 14:09Controller and UI
- 17:38Serial and server
- 20:23Importing music files
- 22:31Notes to strings
- 26:48CPU and power
- 30:23Config tool updates
- 34:20Testing improvements
- 36:57Live demo
- 37:23Playing step-by-step
- 41:29Performance and future
- 45:13Conclusion
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