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.
If you are like most people who play “Rock Band” religiously, chances are you’ve broken your kit and are debating whether or not to toss it and buy a new one or call Harmonix and ask for a refund. This hack shows a rather complex, but do-able way to fix your ailing plastic musical life. […]
I had some time this weekend to assemble my Daisy MP3 player kit. This amounted to 3 or 4 hours of soldering everything together, making a few mistakes, and working around some minor problems. Now I’m listening to the Make podcast on my first open source MP3 player, and I’m happy to say my feeble […]
I’ve been toying around with my new iMac and so far my favorite new feature is Front Row, the simple movie theatre app that’s enabled on the newer IR remote equipped machines. You may have heard about a hack to enable Front Row on older Macs, but that’s not what this hack is about. I […]
Lorin Parker has created a unique vocal synthesizer using a microcontroller, basic principles of analog and digital synthesis and an integrated “Speakjet” chip. The source code is open source, and schematics, hardware plans and kits will be posted soon too – Link. [Link updated, thanks Sam! -cc]
Under the wrist rest of this keyboard are 37 music keys for MIDI keyboard playing. For $44 it’s not a bad deal, but there aren’t any Mac/Linux drivers yet so I’m going to hold off for a bit – [via] Link.
Napoleon Dynamite – “This is pretty much the best bend ever.” Switch activates looping and knob adjusts pitch.
Garth from Extreme Craft writes “The Jukebox Challenge! I’m really excited to see if some people will throw down on this, because I think it’s an amazing idea, but I don’t quite have the tech chops for it yet. There are zillions of great old vinyl jukeboxes out there, but they’re incredibly finnicky to maintain. The challenge would be to create an MP3 interface for a real jukebox that would be as minimally invasive as possible…”
