UA 2017 The Senior Design Project

• Design project for the University of Akron's Electrical & Computer Engineering Program.
• Project Name: Stringless Guitar
• Purpose: Design a fully functional bass guitar without the need of strings.
• Contributors: Kue Yang, Domonic Mercorelli Nathaniel Hawks, Tony Bately.

Design Overview:

• Each string of the bass guitar uses a resistive sensor for detecting the finger position and note being played.
• All four strings ar ran in parallel.
• Each resistive sensor is wired to a PCB board consisting of a microchip, micro SD card, amp connector circuit and power source (9v battery).
• The micro SD card stored all notes of each string and the microchip selects the correct note and outputs the notes over to a DAC.
• The amp connecting circuit will connect all four DAc outputs into a single audio output signal.