RakuChord Mobile like a pocket electric accordian
Over at MAKE: Japan, Takumi Funada found this fun-looking open source hardware instrument called RakuChord Mobile.
Music
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.
Homebrew MIDI piano teacher
Alessandro Lambardi of 5volt built this excellent MIDI Piano Instructor to help his son play piano.
Boom bikes
Wow, rad boom bikes in Germany by Klara Geist! [Thanks, Aram!]
How-To: Make a trumpet
Our friend Steve Roberts sent us the link to this fellow showing you how you can make a pretty decent sounding trumpet out of a mouthpiece, a length of tubing, and a funnel. [Thanks, Steve!] Guy Makes Do It Yourself Trumpet
Jaime Oliver’s amazing membrane controller
Jaime Oliver’s “Silent Drum” uses a unique elastic membrane drum head as a sound controller. A camera reads the position/shape of the head as it’s deformed with the hands and then translates that into data that can trigger sound events. [Thanks, Alberto!] Silent Drum
Shoe music
Daito Manabe (of circuit face bending fame) worked on this Nike promo with music-making shoes. Nice video, would love to see a re-make! (Thanks, Bennett!) More: Circuit face bending Interactive laser demo is quite awesome! More on the Scorelight line-following laser synth Esoteric Programming Language For Embroidery
Vegetable synth
It uses 12 nails in a wooden fruitbowl to sense the resistance between different fruits and vegetables. This then goes to an arduino mega and gets send to max/msp with the arduino2max patch. I then used some low frequency oscilators and a heavy subwoofer for that real body feel.