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 Tapdrum kit coverts 8 analog inputs to assignable MIDI notes via an Atmel 89S8252. The inputs are intended to be used with piezo sensors (optional with kit) but could foreseeably use a number of different sensor input types, even audio as Deviantsynth suggests – Tapdrum kit The site also has a quick how-to on […]
One of the participants from the “Hybrid World Scrapyard Challenge” workshop we held in Brussels, Belgium this past week created this Audio Sampler/Mixer from an old tape reel machine using an Arduino to collect the inputs and web-based control of samples. Check out all of the photos from the workshop at the link below. Flickr […]
These “Audio Cubes” sport IR sensors on their faces to detect distance and communicate with their neighbors. They also have USB ports, rechargeable batteries, and audio in/out ports. Although cool, the price tag isn’t cheap, so we here at Make know that someone could hack their own version together pretty easily. [via]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Smadin made use of an old liquor bottle tube as an amplifier enclosure for the Ruby circuit – BalvenAmp on Flickr Related: Coconut amp From the pages of MAKE: Cracker Box Amplifier – MAKE: 09: Fringe, Page 104.
Chris Graham is prototyping a modular breath-controlled instrument – This is the finished design of the main types of MultiWind instruments: – The Mini Instrument (payable in many styles including brass, harmonica and breath controller). – The Woodwind style instrument, which is convertible from the Mini Instrument by snapping on the Finger Unit. I really […]
I assembled my Noise Toy kit knowing that I wanted to put it in some kind of enclosure, so I made sure to break out all the switches with wires. I found an old tea tin in my father’s shop and he helped me mount the circuit inside. We used a piece of wood to […]
wigidy-wigetty-Woah, Nintendo DS homebrew software has come a long way! DScratch is the first module made using my Protein engine – it’s a little audio manipulation software running on Nintendo DS, which ables you to play with an .wav audio sample, a recorded audio sample or even audio streaming from DS’s embedded mic; you can […]
