[dorkbotsea-blabber] Tiger Electronics Power Tour Guitar mods

[Michael Worobec]

I got a Tiger Electronics Power Tour Guitar for Krimus, and I want to 
mod it to make it a MIDI instrument. It has 12 electrostatic sensors on 
the neck, one between each pair of frets (i.e. a chromatic scale), and 
an optical sensor for strumming. There's also some kind of sensor for 
whammy/tremolo effects too. Best Buy has these on sale for $25. I do not 
know if the electrostatic sensors can operate independently, and I do 
not know if the sensors indicate more than just on/off. But, they are 
very sensitive and fast, it appears.

Anybody interested in a collab on such a tweak? I'm thinking of using 
one or more Atmel controllers to turn the sensor input into a MIDI 
stream - there is probably some existing source that can bit-bang out a 
serial MIDI stream which we could adopt to the Atmel. Gaps I'm hoping a 
collaborator could fill: some knowledge of the sensors or type of 
sensors this kind of thing has. Also, some in-depth MIDI knowledge (I 
have some, and could hack something together nonetheless).

http://www.hasbro.com/tiger/powertourguitar/

Note the volume goes up to 11...

Mike W