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.
The “Franklinator” is a circuit-bent version of the “Franklin the Turtle 1-2-3 Tri-Language Learner” toy, with really nice attention to detail when adding additional switches to this device. Unfortunately, there’s no video of it in action, but the site has some great photos of the finished instrument. Franklinator
What better way for a father and son to bond than by making and using solar powered audio oscillator kit? They even found a nice wooden enclosure for the project. More: Build: Solar Theremin The Solar Powered Theremin (Heliophone) Kit
The DrawSound project uses modified drawing and painting implements to interface with touchscreen driven audio software. In effect, this process renders visual art from the users manipulation of the output. Skip ahead to ~4min20s to see the setup in employed for use in the Sine Wave Quartet performance. – DrawSound PDF [via Synthtopia]
MAKE contributor Larry Cotton fashioned this interesting playing card instrument, the Screechophone – I built this bizarre musical instrument–based loosely on the playing-card-in-the-bicycle-spokes principle–a while back, shot a quick video, then cannibalized it for parts. As you’ll see, the bicycle spokes were scaled down to a small white plastic gear. The card remained. I called […]
The Jacket Lunch Box blog boasts an awesome collection of album-styled bento boxes and even some video documenting how they’re cooked up. Crank up the umami! – オãƒãƒƒãƒã®Jacket Lunch Box More: Amazing bento art
This project puts famous “Internet” audio samples such as “RickRoll”, “Peanut Butter Jelly Time”, and “Will it Blend” on a 12 inch vinyl record that can be easily scratched by any DJ. Now if only it could double as a “scratch” disk. Internet Meme Scratch Attack
A clever rendition of Kraftwerk’s Pocket Calculator using an iPhone, Korg DS-10, and Stylophone. [via Matrixsynth]
