An 'electrified' Guitar (tazer Guitar)

Made by lightwing / Music

About the project

When playing with this Guitar, if you miss a note you get shocked.

Project info

Difficulty: Moderate

Platforms: Arduino

Estimated time: 1 day

License: GNU General Public License, version 3 or later (GPL3+)

Items used in this project

Hardware components

	ARDUINO MICRO	x 1
	Tazer	x 1
	Electric Guitar	x 1
	22 Guage Wire	x 1
	Button	x 1

Software apps and online services

	Rocksmith
	Python IDE
	Arduino IDE

Hand tools and fabrication machines

	3d Printer	x 1
	Soldering Iron	x 1

Story

I feel the punishment for missing a note in the game Rocksmith is not punishing enough. What if there was something... more encouraging? Thus I made an 'Electrified' Guitar!

In order to make this project there were 2 key things that needed to be addressed 1) I needed to detect misses 2) I needed to be able to communicate to a tazer that misses had been missed

To address point 1 I tried machine learning for a while but wasn't fruitful. I eventually went with reading the game's memory. When the part in memory that tracked misses incremented, I knew I missed a note.

To address point 2 I used an Arduino to remotely trigger a tazer.

Then it was time to play!