Fret Calculator

During the summer of 2006, armed with 2 years’ worth of object-oriented Java programming and a borrowed copy of Aaron Hillegass’ ‘Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X’, I finally made it past Apple’s Currency Converter Tutorial and wrote a simple Cocoa application of my own using XCode and Interface Builder.

Given a vibrating scale length and number of frets, the program uses the 12th Root of two to calculate the fret positions that will ensure proper intonation for the 12 tone scale.

I also designed an icon for the application, borrowing the calipers from Apple’s Disk Utility application and adding a stylized fretboard canted at the same angle as elements in many other OS X icons.