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Guitarists, your Days are Numbered

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the funk-machines dept.

spackbace writes "Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have created a mechanical guitar playing robot, named the Crazy J. The guitar player is composed of two mechanical systems that interact to play a range of 29 musical notes. A plucking mechanism with six independently controlled picks is mounted over the body of the guitar and a fingering mechanism with an array of 23 fingertips is mounted over the first four frets of the fingerboard."

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  1. Re:Eddie Van Halen by jetsfandb · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    It was a joke you fucking moron.

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