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.
Bugbrand is running a workshop on building the above seen touch-contact instrument – a good-to-go self contained kit built on CMOS logic – 3 oscillators – two of which can be sync’d to Osc1 resulting in very rich harmonic drone sounds. Each osc has a switch for hi or lo pitch. The Oscs are all […]
The Synthinetic user-powered noise box just begs to be played with, and it most definitely looks the part – To play the instrument the player has to turn big square knobs that turn the motors and slowly electricity is fed to the circuit, power is stored in capacitors that slowly charges. The instrument will start […]
Solar + synthesizer = two great tastes in one! – A wearable, portable square-wave synthesizer designed to be worn around the wrist so that he or she can be musically expressive whenever the moment strikes them. Rows of buttons run along the underside of the wearer’s wrist for triggering of musical tones and a light […]
There was a strong emphasis on solar energy @ ITP’s spring ’08 show – for example, this design for sun-run speakers – The Solar Sound System is a portable audio player powered by the sun. Its slim design for easy travel, and its unique angling system allows you to harness the sun’s rays from any […]
An interesting piece from ITP’s spring show, the Crudbox records button presses as a sequence controlling onboard 5v ports – There are 4 speaker terminals on the box, into each of which you can plug any object that can run on 5 volts. In the video I’ve plugged in LEDs because it makes the interaction […]
This noise maker titled “Coke’s Satan Noise Maker” uses two photocells and a 555 timer to make the crazy sounds documented in this video. Really simple project with some nice results if you watch the above video.
Ladyada’s just churning out the new kits these days; I’m not sure she’s human. The latest: Adding quality audio to an electronic project is surprisingly difficult. Here is a shield for Arduinos that solves this problem. It can play up to 22KHz, 12bit uncompressed audio files of any length. It’s low cost, available as an […]
