3D-fabbed “owl wrap” for headphones
Eric Weinhoffer made this owl wrap for his Skullcandy Ink’d in-ear headphones on his Makerbot. Owl Headphone Wrap More: John Park’s earbud owl 3D-printed 7-piece puzzle cube
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.
That’s one crunchy cracker …
… errr, crisp flat bread to be specific. Macumbista shares this video troubleshooting a very noisy knäckebröd from a 3 day Sound Sculpture workshop @ Neon Gallery, Sweden. Seems surprisingly sturdy for an edible, no?
Stalacpipe organ in action
A brief yet interesting video featuring Luray Caverns Stalacpipe Organ we wrote about a while back. More: Luray’s cave-strument
Introducing the Concertinome
Anonymous reader points out this squeezebox gone digital, incorporating a 16-button monome pad – the Concertinome is a custom made instrument combining the concertina accordion with the monome style keyboard and electronic air pressure sensors. It was made by Espen Sommer Eide 2009 and demonstrated in this concert at Visningsrommet USF, Bergen, Norway. Seems like […]
Star Noise synth by ::vtol::
This is a one of a kind 8-bit synth made by Dmitriy Morozov. Check out the link for more information, including a lot more synths made by this very talented maker. 8-bit noise synth is my latest project based on HT-8950 voice changer chip. Like my Lo-Fizer and Noise guitar it can produce noises by […]
The speaker phone (no, not that speakerphone)
From the MAKE Flickr pool Zackaholic made this rather unique powered desktop speaker with some neat features – It’s a speaker… in a phone! The kind of cool thing is that the power switch is wired to the phone cradle switch so to turn it on you just take the phone off the hook. It […]
Sound circuits played by video projection
Bruno Mathez and Mike Blow’s art installation, PHOTOPHONICS, presents an interesting relationship between light-controlled oscillators and video projection – PHOTOPHONICS is the first result of Bruno’s 3d video-projection mapping experiments. It is a ‘dispersed instrument’ with a number of electronic oscillators created by Mike, positioned on architectural elements of the dark performance space. Each one […]