Handle With Linux

If you are looking for a Linux toy that really rocks, your search ends here. This is a stringless digital guitar and it's powered by Linux

This is what is called a "digital guitar" by it's designer. So it's not a electrical guitar but a device for creating digital music.
The Misa guitar runs Gentoo Linux on an AMD Geode processor and it has MIDI and Ethernet ports for connectivity.

The interface is a touchpad LCD screen with a 5 wire resistive touch sensor. As there's gentoo Linux on the device and there seem to be a lot of digital keys on the guitar I bet it can be hacked into many other things than a guitar alone. As Linux bases synthesizers are available it can probably be turned into a music studio that rocks in your hands.

The guitar is actually a MIDI controller and therefore it's musical possibilities are only limited to what you connect to it's MIDI port and your fantasy/musical genius

What I like most about a thing like this is that it's probably possible to program it to run on it's own, finally giving me the change to impress someone with a musical instrument.

Prices are not available, most of the time this indicates: "much too expensive" in my experience. But hey you do get a pretty cool looking thing. It also seems there's a waiting list for the thing so maybe it is worth a wait.

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