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.
Properboy of goes green with this build of everyone’s favorite stepped tone generator circuit – Here is yet another properboy a.p.c. build, although I have done many with light controlled resistors, this is a first attempt at a solar powered synth.The plan was to create a small drone-unit that I could leave in my window. […]
Powered by Nerd points out this project from Kevin Weekly, the Random Music Box uses a relatively low part count to generate a pleasant pseudo-random song. The cardboard ‘kick drum’ is a nice touch!
BEARINGS GLOCKEN II is a robotic glockenspiel created by KAWASE Kohske. Check out the link for a lot more videos and pictures.
Flo Kaufmann used an old vaccum as an enclosure for his analog synth project, the “satrap activ” – It contains 2 cmos based VCO’s , a Moog ladder filter, a 555 based ADSR, a cmos based 8 step sequencer, a PIC based vc to midi interface and a PIC based auto trigger unit. There are […]
The Atari punk console kit is a simple and fun sound generator that would make a great stocking stuffer. The original circuit was developed by Forrest M. Mims III.
Seems the noise jam got a bit out of hand when sonic experimentalist Aj “Gannon” Pyatak recorded the above demonstration of his very circuit-bent amalgamation – the Toy Volcano. In fact, that turned out to be the most awesomest project vid I’ve ever seen … and trust, I have seen many. no, really. [via GetLoFi]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Fridgebuzzzzz’s MK 1 MIDI controller reminds me of my Dad’s old Gretsch Tennessean … but yaknow, in an elegant, future-y kind of way. the MK1 prototype is a user programmable midi controller featuring 32 LED pushbutton switches and 6 touch sensitive copper plate switches. an example user mapping would have […]
