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Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.60,0:00:16.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is Bob and he will talk about ArduinoGuitar
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.94,0:00:20.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is his project and it's about a guitar
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.58,0:00:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has no other controls than its strings.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.94,0:00:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I think it's a quite interesting project.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.94,0:00:22.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.94,0:00:29.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.65,0:00:34.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Can everyone hear me.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.46,0:00:39.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I will talk about the project itself
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.14,0:00:41.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and everything that came before the project
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.98,0:00:45.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because I didn't know much about any of this stuff
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.66,0:00:48.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I started playing with it, so I will tell you a little bit
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.54,0:00:53.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about myself and how this whole thing happened.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:53.94,0:00:57.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's a lot of things that I might mention, that you might not know about, but you can use Google, right.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:57.74,0:00:59.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everyone can use Google.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:59.94,0:01:02.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, so, there's two things that you might wanna know about me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.38,0:01:04.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are two things that are really characterize me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.38,0:01:07.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a lot of dreams. I spend a lot of time just sitting around and dreaming.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:07.54,0:01:11.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I used to have very little money all my life, you know.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.30,0:01:12.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Practically no money.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.94,0:01:16.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So with dreams and no money you learn to scrounge. You really, you learn to scrounge.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.62,0:01:19.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you find something you learn to fix it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.26,0:01:24.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And when you fixed it you don't want it to break anymore. You got attached to things you got.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:24.38,0:01:30.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's me. You develop an ability to fix anything, which I think I have today.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.22,0:01:35.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Practically anything if I really want. But on the other hand once I fixed it I get attached to it and I don't wanna it to break.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.10,0:01:37.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this fear of losing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.78,0:01:44.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, poverty, dreams and stuff becomes sort of a mixed blessing when you have this.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.26,0:01:46.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You have stuff and then you're afraid to lose it. A song says
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.98,0:01:48.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'When you got nothing, you got nothing to lose'
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.90,0:01:52.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it's not really true. It's when you got nothing you can not afford to lose anything.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.82,0:01:56.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's really how I looked,lived most of my life.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.14,0:01:58.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And there's another aspect that I'm very tenacious.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.42,0:02:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I have this sort of never give up attitude.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's also a mixed blessing in a lot of ways.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And one last thing about me.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I usually like stuff that nobody else likes.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, I'm the only one who buys the one little thing in the shop that has been there on the shelf
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for hundred years and nobody wants it because they don't know what it's for.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because they just don't like it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, this whole project started. Does this work. I guess not. How do you change slides.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There we go. Electric guitar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this whole project started. I was as a kid I always been a hippie. I'm still a hippie.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Living in the sixties and all that. Play electric guitar, want to play the guitar,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,couldn't play the electric guitar, couldn't afford an electric guitar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Get a lot of junk electric guitars, have to fix them.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Don't know how to fix them. Anyways, I had this idea about electric guitars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so first what is an electric guitar really.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's got these things in the middle here. This is one of my guitars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a guitar that propably no one's every seen before.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There's only two of them in Belgium.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's made in Canada.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This one has two, they call them 'pickups'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's where it captures the vibrations of the strings to turn it into an electrical signal.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then here you have a switch which basically which roots the signal from the pickups to the volume and tone controls
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which are here on this guitar. This has one volume and one tone.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then it all goes out through the jack to the amplifier.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's pretty simple. I mean it seems pretty simple.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Although it took me a long time to understand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's what a guitar is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now here is what I know about electronics.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're laughing. You're laughing, but I didn't find it very funny.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I spent a lot of time, even that, it seems so simple and it is simple, but it took me a long time to understand things like
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a voltage divider. What is this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm still not sure if I really understand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyways, so that was way I was for like thirty years of my life.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had guitars.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They never worked. And I got a job, a real job, a serious job.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I had some money.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so I decided to learn to play the guitar at last. I'm an old man now.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Old hippie.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I got a serious guitar. And a serious guitar requires serious adjustment.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know I can fix anything.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Things that break. Things that are expensive. You don't wanna just tweak with.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So I brought it to a luthier, a guitar shop.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Luthier is a fancy word for guitar maker.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And these guys adjusted the guitar and I learned a lot from these guys about guitars,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about technology. And I learned that basically everybody wants the same thing that Jimmy Hendrix played
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all there is. The whole music industry is based on Jimmy Hendrix played a left handed stratocaster
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Not everybody is left-handed, but everybody wants a stratocaster.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's the number one selling guitar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's it. The technology hasn't changed. 1950s. They invented all the stuff
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it hasn't changed. And nobody wants it to change
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because everybody wants to be Jimmy Hendrix.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the mechanical potentiometer and the capacitor and a little mechanical switch. That's it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was from the 1950s and it hasn't changed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And even now a guitar is in five figure-prices, I'm saying a twenty thousand or a thirty thousand
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,dollar guitar. It's still the same guts inside. Nothing special.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ok, maybe the pickups are little bit more sophisticated. Maybe the wiring is really poorly put together.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are twenty thousand dollar guitars that looks like they were soldered by a child.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I've seen it. I wouldn't believe it because on one point I was thinking about buying one of those
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at a special price but when I saw the guts I was like 'Forget it, forget it!'.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, you know the 60s. I love the 60s, because of hippies and because of peace and love
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and all that kind of stuff. It was great and I, for long time I regret it, but then came along Internet
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the 21st century and I found the 21st century is not too bad either.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And in fact it's really cool, especially the long tail. Living on the long tail is a cool place to live.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And everybody here, we are all on the long tail whether we know it or not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, talking to these guys and I started thinking why has the guitar has to be so old fashioned.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why can't it be in 21st century, you know.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why does it have to have these mechanical things and you know there is all kinds of stuff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For example the guitar I showed you. It does some cool stuff. It's not just an ordinary guitar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It does some pretty cool stuff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, basically you have you know the two pickups you have either one or the other or both.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, both in parallel, both in series. Series is already an advance, I mean this only something that became
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,imagined later, much later.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But this guitar has all of that. And those are very, very sophisticated pickups, which were only invented I guess
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ten, twelve years ago.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are very sophisticated. It's a very sophisticated guitar.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But it offers both the neck, the bridge, the neck is the top one, the bridge is the bottom one,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so you can have the neck, you can have the bridge, you can have the neck and the bridge is series
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the neck and bridge in parallel. So that's already pretty sophisticated for a musician.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's already incomprehensible for most musicians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My guitar teacher when I tell him he says 'What do you mean, what are you talking about?'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,See, well, I was just saying 'Jazz and Rock' - 'Oh, I get it, I get it...'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, but even that, so what does that mean? That means, you have this little switch has four positions.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is one for each thing. And if you want to start turning things on, turning things off.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything you need the mechanical switch and you want to have individual tone controls, individual volume controls.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything means more mechanical stuff. And pretty soon you have your guitar just covered with buttons.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And nobody knows how it works. Even yourself. Even if you built it yourself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You still can't rememeber which button to push to get this sound. It becomes just a mess.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I thought, my vision was lets get rid of all this electromechanical crap and put a screen on it or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,make it have a curcuit in there and have it a screen where you can have it synthetic and you can do all kinds of stuff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, why not, why can't that be.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that was my vision. It was to have some kind of curcuit on an Android phone an Bluetooth and in there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In there could some kind of thing, I don't know what, an Adruino it turned out to be.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was my idea and it seemed easy enough. Modern technology and and all that stuff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Vehicles, IR], it's good enough.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And why didn't it already exist? Well, I have a lot of friends or friends of friends in the music industry.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they all came up with the same answers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They is two reasons. First of all it's just unbelievably complicated. You need a team of engineers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hundreds of years of development and it's just really complicated. And this was from professionals, from
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,engineers in the music industry. This is not just from musicians.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then the other thing was just nobody wants it. It's just ridiculous.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody wants to have a knob and a switch. That's what musicians want. That's it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's all there is. So just don't waste your time.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't really waste a lot of my time, but I kept thinking about it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And since I didn't know anything about electronics it was kind of a handicap.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, what to do about this and how to make progress. So this idea just bang around in my head for a while.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then nothing happened. And then I used to go to a lot of TED conf, I still do go to TED conferences in Brussels,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I live in Brussels and they got the TEDx there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you get a lot of inspirational guys talking and I went to one of these.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had a good time with that and I was thinking, you know, is it really impossible to make this?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or is it just people are scared of it? Let me think about Marshall McLuhan.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does anybody know here who Marshall McLuhan is? One person? That's it? Two? Three? Four? Five?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Marshall McLuhan was a great thinker, he thought about mass media in the early 50s/60s and he
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,predicted Internet in 1962. He predicted the arrival of Internet will be a great thing.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said 'In this new age the human kind will move from individualism and fragmentation to a collective
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,identity. A global village.' So invented the phrase 'global village'.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he wasn't thinking about computers. He was thinking about the electrical network that ran
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,throughout the world. He tought that was going to bring the entire planet together like electricity and the net, the electrical net.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was a cool guy. And he also thought about a lot of cool things like why inovation is so hard?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said this second part, which is really [a proporto] to my project and probably to a lot of
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,things people do here is that
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Whenever you look at something new all you references are in the past, so look at something new you just think
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Well, is it like this or is it like that?'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, a Mac is like Windows, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Macintosh is like Windows?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything is referring to the immediate past so that makes it hard to understand something that is
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,radically new. And it puts people off in general from things that are radically new.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I was thinking all this people have told me that nobody wants this stuff and it's impossible to do.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that just fear and misunderstanding or is there more to it?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I had no way of knowing what that meant what was going to happen.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I always think of this story, the Henry Ford story. Which is, he was interviewed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't think this has acutally happened, but he was interviewed and was asked
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'How did you know people would like your car? Did you go and ask them before? Use your survey?'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he said 'If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.' And, you know,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he wasn't interested in making faster horses.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, all this things were going on in my mind and then I went to last years TEDx in Brussels and Mitch Altman was speaking there.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is Mitch by any chance in the room? No, well, he was there and he gave a very inspiring speach about
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hackerspaces and all that kind of stuff.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I nearly jumped on him because he's an electronics guy and I said 'Here's my project.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'What do you think?' - 'Of course, of course, it's so easy. Of course, you could do it. It's a great idea.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'Go and do it!'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That was enough, one guy. Never seen before in my life, convinced me that I should do it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fine. All these experts told me 'Forget it, forget it, forget it.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so, it's a shame he's not in the room, but he gets a slide.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's you know, he hook me. He said contact the hackerspace community.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't even know there was one in Brussels. I mean, 'Brussels'.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, there's a huge hackerspace community in Belgium and Brussels and I was amazed about this.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So that's the meta part of the project. Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now we can talk about the technology and the stuff which is maybe interesting maybe not.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that's a potentiometer, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Most people know what it is. You got the thing you turn and it moves the wiper, the 'W' up or down.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And means that means, that one resistance gets bigger and one get smaller, right?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's really simple. So, then we are having an analogue signal, a sinusoid, coming from the pickups.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The question was how could you make that controllable digitally, somehow.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I thought about putting servos, motors all kind of stupid things. I had lot of stupid ideas.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I put this out on a hackerspace mailing list and people had all kinds of answers,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it all seemed to be like they were, it wasn't criticism, but they didn't know what I wanted.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I felt like there was real some kind of, you know, did you see 'Cool Hand Luke'?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'What we got here is failure to communicate.' And then they whack him over the head. Great movie.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Paul Newmans masterpiece.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyway, it was a failure to communicate and that is something I learnt a lot in this project.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You ask questions and they make perfect sense to you, but nobody else can understand what you are
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talking about. You ask a question in a forum, you say 'I got this thing and this thing.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And people don't answer or they ask you with crazy things. And you realize, that they don't understand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they did not understand.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, finally though after a lot of questions being tenacious, you remember tenacity, we got to an
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,answer by Johannes Tallman who's a brilliant scientist. Is he not here either?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, he's in the [?] space. And he just said 'Why don't you do it with a LED LDR?'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I didn't know if that was a word or if that was acronyms. I said 'Ok, great. Tell me more about was that is.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, actually a LED LDR is really a LED, a light, and a light depended resistor.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So you have something that shines light and then you have something that changes resistance when you shine light on it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And you put those two together and that makes a digitally controllable resistance.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because you can shine light more or less. You can pulse it with PWM. So now you have a
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,digitally controllable resistance. And if you put two of them together like in a picture you get something very
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,similar to a potentiometer. And all you have to do is manage the current. And in the mean time I've been
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing with, I got get inside with Arduino, I saw Banzi on TED and I got the book and I bought an Arduino
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I could make the lights blink and it was great, everything was great. All the problems were solved.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems so simple. Cause like. 'What's wrong with you people? This is so easy. This is so unbelivably easy.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, I started doing it, but somebody on the mailing list said 'You know', I quote this
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'You certainly worked to some extend and even if the result is to noisy or bad quality to be used in music
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will still be huge fun to make.' And I thought to myself 'What? Noisy? Where is noise coming from?'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,'How can? Vehicles IR! Where is noise in that equation? I don't get it.'
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But that was kind of staying in the back of my mind, you know, who cares?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Went on. By the way, LED LDR is, actually in the industry they're called 'Vactrols'.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There is actual a component, that has the whole thing build in one and they are made by different companys.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The best company is Perkin Elmer. If you buy them just put my name in the [?] I get them on my commission, ok.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, that was easy. So now I had the fundamental problems solved and I just had to learn how to do it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read 'Making things talk' by Tom Igoe, later corresponded with and found out he didn't test
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all the code in his book. So here it is. So the idea was really you have a guitar, an Arduino in there,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a bunch of vactrols and then you have some kind of Bluetooth and some kind of device, a computer or
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Android. I've never seen an Android phone in my life at the time, but I figured that would do it and it will be really easy.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yeah and it was. So here is the really geeky part. This the schematic. I only made it because the person
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,revising my presentation here told me to make it more technical because this is a technical conference.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Alright, so here is the technical stuff. You wanted it, you get it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the upper left, there, you can barely see it, but there is three, I put three pickups, this guitar has
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,three pickups and you see there is one sort of double pickup, which is exactly what it is.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So this three pickups. They come in.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the top one goes in and you have the red wire goes to a vectoral(?), which is just an on and off vectoral(?).
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's got no variable resistance just shine all maximum light and it let's maximum electricity through.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's not perfect. The vectors(?) I use have about 80 Ohm resistance when they are full on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you can do a little better than that. I didn't buy the right vectors. I couldn't understand the datasheets.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so complicated. Why don't they just say what I want?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Anyways.. So there you have it. Each of the pickups goes into a vector(?) Those top four