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.
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]
Discouraged by high prices and limited availability, Kentaro knew his chance at owning one of the much-sought-after Tenori-On electronic instruments were slim-to-none. Undaunted by those obstacles he created his own version – free of those extraneous LEDs, function buttons, chips, and well … electronics in general. Hey – everybody loves the feel of popping bubble […]
Melka’s using a MIDI track in Ableton Live software to control an LED matrix through his Processing/Arduino setup – The notes are sent to a Processing sketch, which loads an 8*8 animated gif different for each notes. This gif is processed and the datas are sent to an Arduino board which in return lights a […]
The Voice of Saturn line of synth kits welcomes a new family member – the Modulator features … […]VCA (voltage controlled amplifier), triangle and square wave generator and AR (Attack / Release) envelope shaper. Together, they can be used to add tremolo or AM (amplitude modulation) effects to audio signals, and also add attack and […]
