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.
Artist slash musician Yoshi Akai makes a lot of electronic musical instruments, including this 3-channel Lego sequencer. A lot of his pieces have an awesome steampunk flavor. [A]lmost everybody has played with Lego block. In an interface design, this experience is very helpful. Users can understand how to use the tools by intuition. Furthermore, the […]
Ranjit Bhatnagar is getting some really neat watery sounds from this tiny kalimba made from a tube clamp and some guitar wire clippings. Great for audio FX, just stick a contact mic on things and check out the sounds you get!
The Tactile Metronome kit from the Maker Shed is a tap-controlled or tap-tempo metronome and “beat looper.” “Syncopation machine.” “Metronome with an attitude.” You tap the piezo speaker to set the rhythm.
Clock Loop’s BlackBox 2.0 sequencer project uses 4 Parallax Propeller chips driven by a single 5MHz crystal to create some sweet electro rhythm. The above-seen demo shows off what two of the devices can do together – one handling sound synthesis, while the other’s on sequencing duty. Have a look at the project’s schematic & […]
Linyl Records capture audio and ambient light together on a single disk. It uses an Arduino to read the RGB values on the disk, which it then reproduces in ambient lighting.
After some investigative hacking, Wil Lindsay added Monome functionality to a low cost Bliptronic 5000 melody generator using an Arduino + Arduinome source code. If the devices mentioned in the previous sentences leave you a tad confused, suffice it to say – the above-demonstrated hack adds nicey-nice versatile functionality to a $50 grid of LED […]
Maybe it’s ’cause I’m still all aflutter over the new guitar kits in the Shed, but I paid special interest to this guitar pedal board and travel case that MAKE subscriber Ian, of Tiny Little Life, sent to us. He writes: Steps in the construction of a pedalboard that I built for the guitarist in […]
