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.
Woah, I never knew solenoids could be this good at impersonating audio oscillators! — plus I had no idea copy machines had such advanced easter eggs. Dspdude explains – This test fixture for a photocopier uses solenoids that are driven by a special song. Reminiscent of the Honda commercial for the early 80’s. The easter […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Mark of Spikenzie Labs points out this unusually styled musical interface/instrument posted by Flickr member juhani_. It sports some interesting controls with nice organic-meets-electronic aesthetics. The wheel controls along its length seem to be vertical rotary encoders. Not much pertinent info to be gleaned from his blog, but it seems […]
Instructables user agent036 made this simple acoustic replica of a Vulcan lyre from Star Trek and broke down the steps to show you how, too.
It seems Synthmaker Unearthed Circuits has built one of just about every popular sound project known to the internet-kind. But his knack for retro-military console styling sets his collection apart from others’ work – awesome to see such continuity of style and high-quality work. Example: the Stepped Tone Generator (aka – Atari Punk Console) – […]
Noah at Instructables writes: Building your own custom speakers has got to be one of the most rewarding, straightforward and cost-effective DIY activities I’ve come across. I’m absolutely shocked that it hasn’t had a larger presence on Instructables and in the community…well, until now of course. Some speaker projects can be complete in a weekend, […]
Moldover‘s SyncoMasher combines 5 distinct music controllers into one console – and looks as if it was pulled straight out of a DJ’s TARDIS. While the device received plenty of play from faire attendees, I managed to squeeze in a quick interview with its creator.
Youth Radio, a group that MAKE editor David Pescovitz is involved with, did a cool sound project at the Faire. He writes on Boing Boing: My friends from Youth Radio were at the Maker Faire Bay Area today, creating a live soundscape. Students roamed the fairgrounds collecting audio samples on flash recorders. As the roving […]
