[Gr4yhound] has been rocking out on his recently completed synth guitar. The guitar was built mostly from scratch using an Arduino, some harvested drum pads, and some ribbon potentiometers.

There are Arduino shields for just this sort of thing ... And before we knew it, there was a toy synthesizer sitting on the table: Having previously dabbled with the PIC32 using Microchip ...

At the heart of the instrument is an Arduino UNO A4 Minima board, running a physical modelling synth engine. This is built ...