Chapter 4: Building a LEGO Guitar

Entertainment is an important aspect of our lives and well-being. Music is a great hobby and interest for people and it also creates career-making opportunities. As technology continues to advance in our lives, we see it increasingly being used to create music, music experiences, concerts, and more.

This chapter will be combining robotics and music by using the Robot Inventor kit to make a guitar that is playable and codable to our unique needs.

With a gaming industry that was impacted by the awesomeness of Guitar Hero and the likes of many other music games, let's create our own instrument that will allow you to jam out to your favorite song.

Here is what your guitar will look like by the end of this chapter:

Figure 4.1 – The final guitar build

In this chapter, we will break down the guitar build and coding into the following sections:

• Building the stand (to place the guitar on when not in use...