The Crazy J is made up of mechanical parts, electronic components and software control. The mechanical parts can be seen in the picture above and include a fingering module (on the left) and a plucking module (on the right).

The device built in this project is a MIDI controlled guitar using the HC11 Motorola Micro-controller.  The guitar is solely controlled through the MIDI interface.  The guitar can play the first four frets on all six strings plus all open strings.  This gives the guitar a range of approximately an two and a half octaves. Read More