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.
Though he built it over a quarter century ago at the age of twelve, Russ Hoffman’s SN94281-based synth box can still oscillate with the best of ’em – that my friends, is one quality soldering job. You may recall my DIY-synth-geek senses were piqued by a pic of this project a while back – Russ […]
Arturo Vidich and Eric Mika built these musical shoes, called beat feet.
Fine Collection of Curious Sound Objects is a rather cryptic project by design students Georg Reil and Kathy Scheuring, who transform ordinary household objects into acoustical and musical experiments. The magical character of each object is accompanied with a little story, almost completely concealing the existence of technical components such as speakers or sensors. Only […]
Makers Stephanie McCarty and Andrew Siu built this fun interactive audio device using a couple of Arduino and some miscellaneous parts.
Kat and Jim run Sonodrome from Tynesmouth, UK, on the northeast Channel coast. Besides the hardware featured here and in the Makers Market, they also write and distribute music software, including a digital effects rack designed for their Posc kit.
Music software interfaces designed to look like actual hardware consoles are not an uncommon thing – in fact they’re more or less the norm these days. What’s uncommon is someone creating an actual hardware console modeled after one of those virtual drum machine/synth interfaces – but a motivated maker by the name of ssp did […]
Pingdynasty’s BlipBox project combines two 5×8 LED matrices with a TO576S transparent touchscreen to create an interesting MIDI/OSC controller with visual feedback – The BlipBox consists of a few simple elements cleverly put together. At the core there is a 10×8 matrix of super-bright LED’s with individually adjustable brightness. Overlaying this is a precision touch screen. […]
