Earlier this year we showed you a slick MIDI sequencer project that was constructed using an Arduino Mega, which also happened to drive an incredibly detailed touch screen display.

Some of the first steps toward working with Arduino is understanding how to write code for it. The good news is that it's made with beginners in mind.

A tuning mechanism consisting of 10 stepper motors and a further 10 servo motors for plucking the strings—combined with an arduino controller and some clever MaxMSP and Pure Data programming ...