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That's what I also considered but the problem is that on my Zoom there's already one of the four displays broken (my fault, I dropped something on it) but now the second display started to show some weird artifacts. This is the reason why I wanted to upgrade to another unit. When I used my Zoom...

Since I want to upgrade from my Zoom G5 (which is slowly giving up) I'm thinking about getting the Hotone Ampero. It offers a quite attractive package in a small form factor for a reasonable price. Has anyone of you already tried it and can give some thoughts about it (and maybe compare it to...

A "short" update after some more testing of my guitar (spoiler: not only good stuff) guitar related: - I did some final tweaks to the intonation, string height and neck bow (via the truss rod) and now it plays very nicely with little buzz. Even my 1k€ Schecter blackjack buzzes if you hit the...

Thank you all for your kind words!! Very much appreciated :) I'll take some more pictures when I can show all the features neatly in action, right now it's more or less only cobbled together. But I can give you a quick rundown of the specs: - Maple neck with HPL fretboard (which is the...

Sorry for not posting for so long (again) but I was just too excited seeing my guitar and the LEDs come to life :drool: After countless hours of learning to code C++ the Arduino is finally controlling both LED strips in the fretboard (the one in the body is still missing). I programmed some neat...

Yes. The main reason being that it's cheaper than buying plastic stock and milling it out. Most of the printed parts are PLA while the string retainer is a carbon fibre reinforced PETG which I got for very cheap. This stuff is insanely rigid but more importantly you can sand it very nicely. Also...

Progress is slow, mostly due to painting the body... Every coat takes one day to dry :coffee: In the meantime I'm doing the final steps on the electronics (mostly the LED strips). I also wired up the string retainer. It's made from plastic (because it needs to be non-conductive) and custom...

Thank you very much for your compliments! :) We shot the video at our bassist's workplace, an event management company. The boss there has a lot (!) of guitars and equipment and he was kind enough to let us use all his stuff... We had the equivalent of an above-average car in one room :bump: The...

We also did a regular playthrough but the editing on that isn't done yet... But in the meantime you can check out our new music video we did yesterday :) I don't but I rocked the fretboard back and forth during sanding the frets. I can imagine that there are strange geometric errors when I...

And now some updates regarding my guitar: This the body after one coat of paint and some sanding. The 'worn' look is kinda cool... :D The first coat I did with a brush which makes it quite hard to get a consistent color thickness so for the second coat which I did today I used a foam roller...

Wow, you have a lot of questions... :D I've never heard of an Arduino frying a computer but that sounds scary... Maybe I should consider using my brain more instead of just uploading every change in the code and looking what will happen :D When I built my printer I also used Marlin on a RAMPS...

+++ BIG UPDATE +++ It's been a long time since you've heard from me but now I'm back to building my baby (yes, the emotional bond gets very strong after more than two years and hundreds of hours of work :p) Since my last post I made the new body and neck, designed and printed the battery...

I thought about making a Deckel SO style clone but in the end that was too complicated (especially with the integrated spindle). My take on it is similar to this one here, although it might not look as nice: http://www.metallmodellbau.de/pictures/MINI_BONELLE_II/MINI_BONELLE_II_605.JPG But...

Thank you! I had some doubts but in the end I went with it. Also it would be quite a hassle to change it... It's a heavily modified F400G from Paulimot that I got from eBay. The cutter grinder jig is sadly not finished yet since I need to get that ISO40 shank off of a boring head that I also...

If you don't have the right woodworking equipment... Well, you use metalworking equipment of course :D Here I'm flattening the blank for the neck. I will also cut an angle on one end and glue the headstock blank on there. I ditched the idea of making my own PCB since I changed the way how the...

I'm still alive! :D Other projects like my 3D printer, an overengineered drill and endmill sharpening jig and many more kept me quite busy so I didn't have time to build the second incarnation of my guitar. And there's also my bachelor's thesis that wants my attention.. But anyway, today I cast...

And there is still a microcontroller missing... also I very likely need a bigger battery pack if I don't want to drain it with 15 minutes of continuous use of LEDs. But right now the smoke machine is somehow portable (no loose components dangling around and hanging from flimsy cables... just...

Right now I'm deciding which resin I want to use for casting of the inlays (seems much easier to do than making a negative form of the inlay and trying to fit it in). I want to use a crystal clear resin and add a clouding or dulling additive so that the light will scatter through the inlay. But...

Yes, with chording it will light up the highest fret but I'll program it so that it "blurs" the position a little bit. It will then light up not a single fret but rather the area where my hand is. This is also due to the fact that I intend to use a LED strip with a discrete distance from one LED...

I'm afraid that any kind of optical sensor might be very easily influenced by the surroundings (reflective surfaces, room lighting, smoke...). Also I want to avoid anything on the guitar that looks odd. I want every secret feature somewhat hidden :D I like the idea of conductive paint! Seems...