Functional LEGO Guitar
This LEGO guitar isn’t just for show, as the Brick Experiment Channel used the Mindstorms EV3 set to make it fully-functional. It’s made entirely from LEGO parts, but you’ll need an EV3 Ultrasonic distance sensor and an EV3 Brick to create your own.



Yes, there’s sound too, thanks to an EV3 internal speaker at the bottom of the guitar. When you press a button, the speaker plays a sound since each of them are programmed differently for the three EV3 programs: Solo (all five buttons), Rock (2 + 3 for power chords), and Bass (2 + 3 + 4 + 5 play strings).

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Functional LEGO Guitar

The sliding plate size and position are important. The plate is carefully chosen to be a Lego Plate 4×6 3032. Larger plate will make the ultrasonic sensor lose accuracy in close distance and smaller plate makes it lose accuracy in large distance,” said Brick Experiment Channel.

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