Part of the OpenChord project is a commitment to open source and do-it-yourself hobbyists. In this light, we’ve always planned on putting together kits to let you easily make your own OpenChord guitars. As it stands, it seems like we’re in a position where the basic assembly of the guitar has been mostly figured out, leaving most of the updates on the software side of things. Right now, we’re in a position where we could get a bunch of circuit boards printed out and start packaging them together as kits. However, when you buy a circuit board, the board itself costs only a dollar or two, but the set-up costs are around a hundred or so. Therefore, it only makes sense to go and get some boards if there’s enough interest to buy a large order of boards.
So we’re asking you, the person interested in OpenChord, would you like to buy a kit to build your own OpenChord guitar? Drop us a line in the comments, or e-mail us at buy@openchord.org, and if we get enough interest, we’ll go ahead and get a run printed up!
