British inventor James Bruton created a guitar, instead of strings on which are barcodes with encoded notes. You can play such a guitar only with a scanner. The video depicting the tool is published on the author’s channel on YouTube.

The basics of a MIDI guitar are made of aluminum components, onto which plastic parts printed on a 3D printer are attached. The tool has four fingerboards on which barcodes are located. The device also has a resonator hole and a special joystick to switch between octaves and select the desired MIDI channel.

Barcodes can be used with a scanner. ASCII characters are encoded in them, that is, integers from 0 to 127: the computer turns them into notes.

The developer did not tell how his invention could be used in the future and what he was going to do with it.

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