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Tuesday, September 5, 2006

Lots of pots

After some weeks away from the workbench I continued working on the keytar. I finished the white “pickguard” area. Now it features three faders on the existing plastic “pickup” dummys and five pots, four of them regular and the fifth one with an additional on/off-switch for the whole setup:

Also, there are in total 18 LEDs in the small holes next to the pickups. The holes already existed and have a diameter of 3mm which made fitting 3mm LEDs quite easy. Apart from that, it somehow takes ages to build all that when you try to make it look good. There are lots of small plastic pieces in the way of the new electronics and so my workspace is completely covered in small plastic debris from sawing, drilling and filing the toy guitar. Cutting the straight slits for the sliders was a special pain in the ass. They ended up almost straight.
Next: Installing the blue LCD in the guitar body and wiring up everything.

Keytar Project:
Part 6: Guitar neck keyboard
Part 8: soon