hardware13 · 2026
Reins
The MIDI Guitar as open hardware. A board on the guitar reads your hand. A pedal turns it into MIDI.
- guitar side
- ToF · LED ring · OLED · encoder · battery
- pedal
- MIDI DIN out · EXP · FOOT · OLED · LED bar
- link
- wireless
- materials
- KiCad · XIAO · ToF · MIDI · PCB Design · Open Hardware
hardwareprototype · 2026
MIDI Guitar
A Squier Mustang that sends MIDI. A distance sensor turns hand height into CC and pitch bend, sent wirelessly to a receiver board. Routed body, milled boards. Aalto Fab Lab final project.
- sensor
- VL53L1X ToF
- mcu
- XIAO ESP32-S3
- link
- ESP-NOW
- output
- CC · pitch bend
- materials
- XIAO ESP32-S3 · C++ · KiCad · VL53L1X ToF · ESP-NOW · MIDI · Max/MSP