Using a special sensor, a guitarist will be able to simply slide his or her finger over a guitar's pickguard to control volume.

Touch sensors have been used to create guitar-bass hybrids, effects controllers, and devices of the like, but background research did not yield any information or projects involving touch sensors and volume controls on guitars.

Guitarists who prefer a flat surface below the picking area of his or her guitar would enjoy this project. Since the sensor is based on touch and is far enough away from the picking area as to not be in the way of the user\'s playing, it allows freedom of movement.

The guitarist, in the studio, on stage, or alone during a practice session, wants to modify the volume on his or her guitar. She simply slides her finger in a linear fashion, like moving a slider up and down on a mixer, to control volume.

The sensor technology is made of wire, capacitors, resistors, a microcontroller, and the QT411 sensor.

I discovered that it\'s really, really hard to work with SMD modules that are the size of a rice grain. I also realized the magic of touch.