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.
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 […]
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 […]
It’s been a really busy week in the Maker Shed. We are continuing our Dog days of summer sale, and we added a new Box amplifier kit, along with a line of high quality microscopes. Speaking of microscopes, Robert Bruce Thompson wrote a really informative article on the subject too. Earlier in the week my […]
One of my favorite DIYs in the newest issue of MAKE, Volume 19, is a sweet project titled “MIDI Camera Control” in our DIY Imaging section by Josh Cardenas. A while back, Josh got the rare opportunity to run visuals for The Hard Sell tour, a collaboration between renowned turntablists DJ Shadow and Cut Chemist.
MAKE compadre Pete Edwards posted this rather handsome one-sheet guide for adding effect/mix control to a common megaphone voice changer. Looks like a great starting point for those looking to convert inexpensive toys into more versatile devices for music. Have closer look over @ Casper Electronics. From the pages of MAKE: Circuit Bending Volume 04, […]
Maker Iwan Roberts reconditioned this pair of headphones using coconut husks and some twine as a gift for a friend. They’re perfect for listening to a MAKE Podcast and rugged enough to bring along on the occasional three hour tour.
After last week’s Teach Your Family to Solder announcement, I couldn’t help but think of this cool little project as perfect soldering practice. The Rock ‘N’ Roll Speakers first appeared on the pages of our sister publication CRAFT in Volume 07 as a sneak peek excerpt from one of our books, Fashioning Technology by Syuzi […]
