Ever wanted to improve your picking skills? Imagine if you didn't have to. Guitar player Olav Kvern has built a robotic device that fits to an electric guitar and picks its strings for you.
The idea started when Kvern was watching a Seattle guitarist he admired, the late Klaus Lendzian. "As I watched him play, I thought, 'He’s really good. Lyrical, a great sense of timing. Wow, I wish I could play like that. What makes it all work is his right hand, his picking hand. It’s like a machine,'" Kvern writes on makezine.com. "A machine, I thought, at that moment. I can build a machine."
