Laser instrument
MAKE subscriber Jared writes in to share his latest tutorial, how to make a laser instrument. Using a set of eight laser diodes and detectors, he converted an Arduino into a nice looking instrument.
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.
Moritz Waldemeyer’s illuminated guitars
Moritz Waldemeyer made these fuzzy LED and laser Gibson Les Pauls for OKGO, which I think might notch them a smidgen above Daft Punk in total wearable volts. [via Fashioning Technology] More: OKGO LED jackets
How-To: Make your own graphite resistors from pencil lead
Some audiophiles apparently think graphite resistors “sound better” than metal oxide or wound wire resistors. Whether that’s science or just myth, I don’t claim to know, but making one’s own resistors is pretty cool either way. Troels Gravesen’s tutorial shows you how. [via Hack a Day]
Solar powered punk console
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. […]
PIC-based Melody Generator
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: A robotic glockenspiel
BEARINGS GLOCKEN II is a robotic glockenspiel created by KAWASE Kohske. Check out the link for a lot more videos and pictures.
Portable vacuum synth
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 […]