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.
Michael wins the best Guitar hero hack of all time! He created a circuit that takes in composite video, performs signal processing, and then correctly “hits†buttons on the guitar hero controller based upon what’s on the screen – AutoGuitarHero via Bunnie. What is the story? “I knew the only way I was going to […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Wow – Holotone grafted a toy phone circuit to an old PC gaming joystick and added onboard speaker, touch contacts, photocell/LED control, pitch control and more! – thus the Tiny Optotouch is born. The joystick itself is just two potentiometers, so I use them as switchable pitch adjustment on […]
The hills of Bay Area Maker Faire shall be alive with a whole lotta music. Make sure to bring your feet for tappin’ because the Tarantulas will be in attendance! – The jug band tradition emerged from Kentucky and Tennessee in the early 20th Century when poor but creative individuals built their own instruments from […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Member Xelent turned a tape recorder alarm clock into a 5 second loop machine. (ok, 4.9 to be exact) Check out the sound sample on Flickr – LoFi Looping Tape Machine Mmmm, analog-y! Member Xelent tuned a tape recorder alarm clock into a 5 seconb loop machine. (ok 4.9 […]
Michael writes – Hey Makers! I’ve been busy building my very own MIDI-controlled Drumbot using the HighlyLiquid MIDI decoder kit. I’m going to be conducting a workshop detailing how to build and implement the kit on Friday, May 2 as part of BENT festival Minneapolis. Free kits will be given to workshop participants, limited to […]
MIDI Control by Peter Kirn. Music equipment language isn’t just for audio anymore. Page 158 – MAKE 7. Read this article now in the MAKE digital edition. Or get MAKE 07 as part of The Second Year from the Maker store and/or subscribe to MAKE (use code CMAKE for $5 off USD). You can view […]
Jim writes – Why write a music program for the internal speaker when the speaker sounds so terrible? Because the journey is more important than the destination. Ultimately, I wrote it to teach myself OOP techniques, and simply to see if it could be done. Along the way I felt that I learned what it […]
