[MUSIC PLAYING]
SPEAKER 1: Today I have in front
of you a self-playing guitar.
It is a device that allows
any guitar to play itself.
It can play any song,
Stairway to Heaven,
Country Roads, Dust in the
Wind, you think of a song,
it can play it.
It originated my freshman year.
I couldn't sleep.
I had my guitar and loved music.
And I thought this idea
of a self-playing guitar
would give me an excuse
to apply what I was going
to learn in the classroom.
So I went to my professors,
and it wasn't just
the electrical
engineering faculty.
I went to the music department.
I went to a local maker
space called River City Labs.
I went to the
entrepreneurship school.
I said, hey, I want to
make a self-playing guitar.
And they said, hey, you should
join our Big Idea Competition.
And I somehow walked
away with the top prize.
It allowed me to grow
this project ever further,
and it's no longer a pipe dream.
And the Bradley community, the
[? Pura ?] community, friends,
family, I have them to thank.
And I hope I can serve as
a representative of what
a Bradley education can provide,
at least what it's provided me.
As I would not be standing
here without the support
of the Bradley community.
[MUSIC PLAYING]
