Eli Hughes developed this Active Pickguard project for a Freescale Kinetis contest. He unfortunately didn’t win the contest but that doesn’t change the fact that the project is totally cool. The contest had a ton of entries and with a quick look at the prizes you will see why, a first place prize of $10,000 isn’t too shabby! I love the cat6 cable that is used to plug it in. You aren’t a real geek unless your guitar has a programming/debugging port. 🙂
Thanks for the tip Tony.
“The processing has FIR based comb filters, IIR filters (cascaded biquads), Look up tables (overdrive effect) and some funky time domain stuff for pitch shift. I don’t have it in the video (limit was 1.5 minutes for the contest) but one of the patches shifting the guitar down an octave.”