For the second Eng 198 project, we were given an Arduino kit and $100 bucks to build something that did something. Many groups decided on something that moved around a lot or had a function similar to a clock... we didn't. Having many years of musical experience, I lead my group in making a bass guitar playing robot, Sting. He would pluck the strings to a programmed rhythm while a person would fret the bass. The idea was to allow either a one handed or poorly-rhythmic person to learn to play a popular instrument with a device that could also be adapted to a guitar. In the end, the project worked out well without costing anything more than the arduino kit. It took a while for the robot and me to get in sync, but when we were the obvious tune of Jingle Bells reverberated around the room.
Here is a video of the device still in its conditioning stage, with jingle bell's rhythm hidden in the video.
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