Robotic guitar actuators

our project for this semester is to build a guitar playing by itself…
the user will only choose a song in the pc… and the guitar will automatically be play…
were having trouble on how fretting action will happen…
we’ve seen some videos on youtube and they use pneumatic cylinder as actuator…
any suggestion about the actuator that we’re going to use aside from cylinder…???
were considering the servo motor, because we’ve already use that as actuator for plucking string…
the problem is that the fretting(the one acting as fingers in the fretboard of the guitar)…
any suggestions…??on how servo will create linear actuation… thanks a lot…

Hello,

We do sell some linear actuators that you could consider using for your application.

By “servo motor”, do you mean an RC servo? Unfortunately, we do not have anything to recommend for converting the rotational movement of such a servo to linear motion; if you want to do this, you might have to build your own mechanical linkage.

- Kevin