Visually Reactive Guitar

[Brian Cork]

Greetings MIMFers!

I'm a hobbyist musician with a day job who's itching to create a visually reactive guitar. L.E.D.s are cool, but am wanting to create a never been done before/unique thing.

To use an ACT exam comparison: Mood ring is to body heat as visually reactive guitar is to the guitarist's picking/strumming.

I have a few ideas and would love to collaborate with someone who's got technical skills to help make it happen. (To clarify, I'd like to add something to an existing guitar, not necessarily start from scratch.) Thanks!

[Jim McConkey]

You need to visit my favorite blog, the aptly-named Evil Mad Scientists, and check out their interactive LED surfaces to get some good ideas. Be sure to check out the links in the blog to their earlier versions for interactive coffee and dining tables.

[Dan Warren]

Neat table. I like how the cat in the older video totally ignores the high-tech lighting system and still just goes for the string.

I definitely don't have the tech skills, but this is the picture I got in mind: Clear-epoxy cast guitar body, embedded with fiber optics, that all go to a few central LEDS powered by something like one of these buggers:

http://www.hitlights.com/ls-music144w?g ... Mgod3G0ADQ

except bypass the mic and come off of a preamp?

[David King]

http://www.instructables.com/id/LED-Rea ... d-Light-1/
Seems dead simple but I can't say it did anything for me.

[Dan Warren]

Yikes, that's almost exactly what I was picturing. I was kind of thinking less solid-color blast, though, and more swirling-pattern.