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.
Instructables is looking for more awesome projects for its Art of Sound contest, where you can win lots of audio goodies including handcrafted speakers and bzzt-boop toys from Bleep Labs. The competition is steep, but hopefully inspirational!
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Meara O’Reilly, projects intern I’d been wanting to make a Chladni plate for years, and testing out Edwin Wise’s Chladni plate project for MAKE, Volume 16, was just […]
MAKE subscriber Jeff made this really sweet laser synth-guitar that he calls The Prism. The Prism is a laser guitar, with four laser beams acting as “strings” that can be held to produce a tone. A Sharp IR range finder detects the musician’s hand on the fretboard to change the pitch. You can select sine, […]
Psylab shares this vid of MIDI controlled pyrotechnics at Firefly 2009 – Fire Cannon created by Rob Darman. The cannons are controlled by MIDI notes being sent from Steven Asaro’s Roland V-Drums. Special thanks to Jeff Mission for MIDI technical support and translations via GlovePIE. Plus – not to be missed, their cover of MJ’s […]
The WaveRP library makes audio recording possible with Arduino(ATMega328), WaveShield + simple mic preamp circuit – WaveRP is an Arduino library for recording and playing Wave files with the Adafruit Wave Shield. It records 8-bit mono files at 4,000 to 44,100 samples per second. Use of the Wave record/play library, WaveRP, requires the following: Arduino […]
Here’s a little rechargeable amp you can carry around in your pocket by instructables user brunoip from Argentina.
Inspied by the BeatBearing project, Damien Kee built a musical sequencer using the Lego NXT system – Each coloured ball represents a different note. As the colour sensor passes over the top, the note assigned is played. Different rhythms are capable by placing the balls in different places on the holder. Bonus points for the […]
