“Wire Button”
“Wire Button” by Jaehyung Hong – a clever way to store headphones while you wear them, nice re-make potential! via DVICE.
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.
Ken Stone’s modular synth site
Reader Kevin wrote in to point out an excellent resource for DIY synth makers – Ken Stone’s Modular Synthesizer site offers an excellent selection of schematics for all manner of synth building, and sells PCBs for most of the circuits listed – some very cool unusual stuff too like the V8 simulator and Stompbox adapter […]
Webcam beat sequencer
The Beatmachine software uses video input to create sample playback sequences. Looks like you can use pretty much any contrasting objects around 1/2″ in diameter as markers against a grid divided up via software settings – quite sweet. Check out the translated site for the Windows download – Beatmachine
Visualize your music while you play it
This electric Guitar Laptop mod by Ben Lewry called the “LCDetar” is a really nice hack that makes you look even geekier on stage than you thought was possible. The onscreen visualization is directly connected to the sound generated by the guitar,, check out the video! Electric Guitar Laptop Mod is Pretty Sweet
Guitar with a replaceable heart sounds sweet
This guitar has a replaceable custom designed “wooden heart” that can be exchanged for another design to give it a new sonic identity. Interesting idea, with lots of potential to shape the future of acoustic design of instruments. AMIT ZORAN, [via]
Abyssal synth takes you to new sonic heights
This custom built synth, called the “Abyssal” by Atomosynth (who we covered in Make back in the fall) is an analog, photo-noise and oscillating filter synth that features one square wave and saw waveform generator with a large pitch range, from subsonic to ultrasonic sound. Everything is controlled from a large photocell visible from the […]
Prescription for noise
A creative enclosure for an atari punk console, exudes the healing powers of stepped tone generation – I found this pill capsule because someone in my house needs horse pills, evidently. I basically drilled the holes, used Epoxy to secure the battery holder to the speaker, and crammed everything in there. I love one night […]