An electric bass styled like the Fender Precision built from scratch. Along with being able to be played, it also calls out guitarists when they play ‘forbidden songs’ (cough stairway to heaven cough smoke on the water cough)
returning this as it has been funded by outpost! submit your build when you are done building!!
Devlog #4
I have a bass now! I’ve assembled everything together and added a hole for the screen I’m going to use, which is just a small capacitive touch screen I found with a built in speaker.
Now, I just need to focus on software. My current idea is to find an open-source guitar tuner and use it to recognize certain combinations of notes.
Yamada Ryo would be proud, I hope.
Devlog #3
I finally worked on parts of the guitar that aren’t the body! I have a draft of the pickguard done that just needs some smoothing out, as well as the beginnings of a neck. Thanks to the fact that I haven’t CADed in a while, I’m running into a couple issues, the main one being the fillet tool, since I need it to radius the neck. I’ve also decided on a screen to mount, and will add a hole for it on the guitar in my final design. Next up: software! This may be a hardware project, but stairway ain’t gonna be denied unless I make the bass actually recognize it. So I get to do both! Yay!
Devlog #2
I’m actually getting somewhere now! Thanks to Onshape’s image tool, I was able to underlay the plan I found, and the bass actually looks pretty decent. All that’s left is to just figure out how big the screen will be, and then I can worry about the neck!
CADing is something I haven’t done in a while but it’s been really fun making this, probably because it’s a personal project instead of random brainrot for a club or a team. For anyone that happens to come across my bass of denial wondering if they should give CAD a try, go for it!
Here we go! So for my hardware project, I’m building a bass similar to a Fender Precision. The original goal of the project was to just make a bass that looks the same as Ryo Yamada’s from Bocchi the Rock!, but then I thought, “that seems kinda boring.” So I added more! Now, the bass is also planned to have a screen and microphone, so when infamous guitar songs like Stairway To Heaven are played, the bass can react to it by telling their guitarist to stop (thank you, Wayne’s World). This CAD design is a complete prototype, lacking any clear measurements or incredible precision. The holes on the right are for the pickups and the volume/tone knobs, while the one on the left is for the screen.
