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James's Weekly Progress

This week I worked on beginning to assemble the fretboard mechanism which can be seen to the left. I began to assemble the various crossbars with their respective solenoids on them in order to make sure that the heights of the components are correct. Currently, the covers for the solenoids are printed out of PLA, but they will be made out of TPU when they are finalized.

I also began to work on the picking mechanism, which is a new ground-up design. Crossbars will be made to hold the solenoids with the picks friction fit to their assembly, and the whole assembly will be supported via aluminum rods cut to length and threaded to serve as standoffs.

In addition to this, I found CAD for the pickguard for the guitar, which I printed, modified the size, and then printed a properly sized version of it in order to continue CAD for it. This will be the method of attaching the picking mechanism to the actual guitar, similar to how Luke's design works.

Andrew's Weekly Progress

This week I finished designing the PCB into a fully designed and orderable state. I plan on purchasing the PCB next week. All of the traces on the PCB have widths relative to the current they are intended to handle.

I had cut the plywood I had bought for the Pipe organ into the 6 pieces I need: the top, bottom, and 4 sides. For next week, I plan on having the holes for the top fully drilled, and then stained.

I had pulled the pressure valve off of the prototype organ, and I plan on buying pipes for that next week.

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