LeStrum

LeStrum I bought and built Jason Hotchkiss's fantastic Le Strum kit from tindie.com and had great fun with it, but the small buttons hurt my fingers. There were quite a few inspiring and creative mods on the six four pixels  website , so I thought I'd have a bash and see if I could make something for myself to make playing it easier. Here's what I eventually ended up with: I didn't have a concrete plan to start with and the whole process was organic. I learned A LOT! I'd never attempted anything like this before but you learn through doing and making mistakes, and I made a lot. It didn't help that I kept changing my mind about the design on an almost daily basis... Here's a video of it being played: Get the design right I had initially thought of creating a guitar-like body for my Le Strum. I mocked-up some visuals in Illustrator and printed them out full-size to see if they were ergonomic. This is an early version. I tried out some ideas for graphics for t