While looking through websites I found a guy named Shu Uesugi who has designed a new arduino based "air guitar interface" using a nintendo wii nunchuck and a golf glove with added flex sensors.
Shu used arduino hardware.
Shu has designed a code in arduino which is then sent out to the hardware device that contains the oaths to the flex sensors, wii controller and to the sample library of guitar sounds (jfugue).
The wii nunchuck is used for its motion sensor, when it is motion down or up it is as if you are strumming the guitar, when the nunchuck button is pushed in it is as if you are picking notes, the two other buttons on the wii remote allow you to shift up an octave and to get distorted guitar sounds. The flex sensors on the golf glove is then used to hit the different notes as if it were a fretboard.
The design has its flaws and you obviously need to be connected to the computer to change your samples depending on what scale etc. you are wanting to be in. The idea however is genius, surely this will at somepoint take of in the games industry to take over the guitar hero style guitar playing and at one point or another could really change the way we think of building and playing real musical instruments.
Air Guitar from Shu Uesugi on Vimeo.
