CD package folding
Also from Chung Da Lam, this cool, innovative ways of folding paper to create CD cases. While you’re on his site, also check out his wonderful papercraft projects on his Paper Art page. Chung Da Packaging Design
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.
Servoelectric Guitar
The Milwaukee servo electric guitar requires no fretting or even tuning – that work is left to a team of servo motors mounting prominently on the bridge area – A servoelectric guitar is a fretless guitar that is played by controlling servomotors that change the tension of the strings over an octave or more on […]
Tricked out bookbag makes squarewaves
Frostedminipete gears up for a proper day of learning with this enhanced backpack – Bet you’ve never seen anything like this before though, huh? Side pouches on my bookbag were a bit dull… so, the one I keep my water in now has a switch to make the water glow, and the other side has […]
Cheap and easy patchbay for circuit bending
Patching out an instrument for easy experimentation is a great idea – but drilling an array of holes and installing the appropriate hardware can be a bit of a hurdle to overcome. Experimentalists Anonymous points out this inventive use of a breadboard as a simple patchbay [scoll to bottom of page]. No need for banana […]
Noise Night – 2/12/09 & 2/26/09
Boston area benders and builders be aware – Noise Night is happening on the 12th and 26th of this month @ Willoughby & Baltic – even if that little octopus [see above] complains! The ongoing event now has its own Flickr and YouTube groups. Jimmie P posted a sampling of noise jamming that went down […]
Sweet cupcake stepped tone generator (and more)
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member wayn3w cooked up the Cupcake Atari Punk Console with detachable photoresistor control – apparently capable of producing “nasty results”. Hmmm, looks innocent enough from this pic – Cupcake APC This one was built using a kit from GetLoFi – who, by the way, just posted a nice collection […]
The touch-string penguin
Born from the body of a humble miniature Tijuana six-string is The Penguin. Built as a one-of-a-kind birthday gift, this instrument’s strings aren’t for plucking, they’re to be touched. After triggering the piezo concealed beneath the device’s cartoony namesake, the player modulates sound by bridging multiple strings. And convincing the original instrument to be touch […]