We made and shared different sketches that allowed us to find new ideas that we would not have thought of at first. The goal was to design a new guitar in different ways. On my first sketches, all guitars had one thing in common: electronics. For the second set of sketches, I had to remove any electronic mechanism.

This week, I was a little confused about the process to follow, Elisa taught me a new technique to go beyond the first idea. The goal was to get out of his comfort zone and be more open-minded.

For these sketches, we had to use the research we had done in the past to include in our instruments the elements necessary for their functioning to be able to play music.

We wanted to try a mechanical guitar. We 3D printed some components but they didn’t fit together and the electronica worked out really well. This was the turning point to focus on the electronica to make a guitar.

Kaj helped us with some electronics. We asked him a lot of questions, such as: is it possible to do get a faster response from the touchboard? He had to do some research and came back to it later.
We were quite stuck this week so I thought to do some sketches with Audrey (Rick was ill that day) with some limitation to get some inspiration going.

looked at weird guitars/ instrument already existing. made a moodboard out of it.

This week I developed low-res prototypes with the code I made with Kaj. By doing this and looking for limitations and possibilities I came up with new insights to do the rest of the weeks. After this week we came to the conclusion that we go for a guitar with electronics.

Kaj helped me to write the code in Arduino to link the distance sensor to sounds and different statements. Later I also taught this technique to my teammates.

This week I studied the bare conductive board in combination with a sensor. The choice was made for a distance sensor. The reason for this was to reduce the restriction of his hands by thinking in terms of solutions.