Bass Player

Overview: The objective of this project was to build a robot capable of playing bass guitar. The robot achieves this by using a threaded rod to slide a fretting device up and down the neck of the bass then plucking the strings using a picking mechanism constructed with 3D printed parts and two Dynamixel XL-320 servos.

Bass Playing Robot
 

 

 

 

Mechanical Design:

Conductive thread is wrapped around the ends of the probes so that when the fretting device passes a frett the circuit is closed and the robot updates the current fret position depending on direction.

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Github Bass Playing Robot Repo -

https://github.com/MisterHatch/BassPlayer