Take your creations beyond the workshop and onto the stage with diy music instruments! Let us show you how these creations range from simple, basic setups that produce beautiful sounds to more complex projects that require a greater level of engineering knowledge. With these tutorials and examples, we’ll guide you on this journey to make your own musical instrument for experimental, artistic or everyday use – so whether you’re starting out new or a seasoned sound creator, come explore the wonderful world of making your own music.
This looks interesting – Stray Technologies is offering a USB-MIDI controllable kit based on the YM2149 sound generator IC, famed for its use in classic computer and game consoles – The chip is most well known for its use in the Apple II Mockingbird soundcards and Atari ST computers. The YM or the chip from […]
Haeyoung Kim made a “musical table” with two Arduino boards and a very interesting switch design (using conductive tape) on the bottoms of several interchangeable toys that play along the top. She provides source code, schematics, and the rest of the how-to over at Instructables. Here’s a little iPhone video of the project:
I’ve been a drummer since I was 15, and I can tell you: Sturdy drum hardware is expensive. Sturdy drum hardware that looks this cool is priceless.
Oh, wait…no it’s not. Turns out it costs $23.
Blair Neal of Troy, NY, wrote in to share this excellent project: A demo video of my installation that uses an old overhead projector, a camera, some markers and a laptop and turns it all into a playful art piece. It is essentially an inverse color organ that you can play like a player piano. […]
Another creative device from Mr. Gijs Gieskes, this time converting MIDI note data to playback control of online video – An arduino usb hid keyboard emulator is used to convert midi note messages to keypresses. This can be useful to control online videos with midi, in combination with the youtube mixer (uses the youtube javascript […]
Built for a presentation on mobile development for MobileCampBrussels, the Phone Guitar is an amalgam of five smartphones, three mobile platforms, three programing languages, two third-party apps, a custom cross-platform sequencer app, a stick, some battery powered speakers, and plenty of duct tape.
Bring the tunes as you ride with this simple solar-powered bike stereo, built into a milk crate by Matt Bosher in Tempe, AZ.
