{"id":616721,"date":"2026-08-02T14:04:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/616721\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T14:04:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:04:15","slug":"this-robot-plays-pretty-acoustic-guitar-melodies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/616721\/","title":{"rendered":"This robot plays pretty acoustic guitar melodies."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Posted Aug 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM UTC<\/p>\n<p>This robot plays pretty acoustic guitar melodies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Music-playing robots are nothing new. It\u2019s been 13 years since <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3RBSkq-_St8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Compressorhead<\/a> went viral, after all. But this DIY project from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/arduino\/comments\/1vchh9z\/my_guitarplaying_robot_performing_on_a_real_guitar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit user MegCell<\/a> is still pretty impressive. The melody isn\u2019t hard-coded, either. Instead, the robot can read MusicXML files, meaning, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xda-developers.com\/this-musical-robot-can-play-a-physical-guitar-for-you-and-more-instruments-are-on-the-way\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">theoretically<\/a>, it can play almost any song you want.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Follow topics and authors<\/strong> from this story to see more like this in your personalized homepage feed and to receive email updates.<\/p>\n<ul class=\"tly2fw3\">\n<li id=\"follow-author-article_footer-dmcyOmF1dGhvclByb2ZpbGU6NjA5MzU0\">Terrence O&#8217;BrienClose<img alt=\"Terrence O'Brien\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1bw37385 i7ks070\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1785679455_353_TERRENCE_BLURPLE.jpg\"\/>\n<p>Terrence O&#8217;Brien<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/authors\/terrence-obrien\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All by Terrence O&#8217;Brien<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>EntertainmentClose\n<p>Entertainment<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/entertainment\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Entertainment<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>MusicClose\n<p>Music<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/music\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Music<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>NewsClose\n<p>News<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All News<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>RobotClose\n<p>Robot<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/robot\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Robot<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>TechClose\n<p>Tech<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x1\">Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed.<\/p>\n<p>FollowFollow<\/p>\n<p class=\"fv263x4\"><a class=\"fv263x5\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">See All Tech<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Posted Aug 2, 2026 at 1:44 PM UTC This robot plays pretty acoustic guitar melodies. 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