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.
Seems like every couple years a vinyl comeback article makes the rounds, maybe it’s really going to happen! – From college dorm rooms to high school sleepovers, an all-but-extinct music medium has been showing up lately. And we don’t mean CDs. Vinyl records, especially the full-length LPs that helped define the golden era of rock […]
This “Juke Box Entertainment Center” costs about $200 and makes it pretty obvious how old your media collection is by showcasing up to 104 CDs, 80 DVDs, VHS tapes, and your small, 27 inch TV. We like the homage to the past, but we wonder if its compact design makes it a bit difficult to […]
Mark writes – You remember Field of Dreams, the baseball fantasy movie where Ray Kinsella heard a voice that whispered, “If you build it, they will come,” don’t you? Well, ARRL Education and Technology Program Coordinator Mark Spencer, WA8SME, has come up with a successor to his No-Solder Code Practice Oscillator project that–if you build […]
Dave Fowler of uC Hobby continues his series on Arduino sound generation with an article on DAC (Digital-to-Analog) output options. Arduino Audio DAC Options – Link Related: Making Arduino sing, Part Three: Playing a melody – Link Making Arduino sing, Part Two – Link Making Arduino sing – Link
Interesting touch-sensitive mixers with a LED matrix under the faders, Soundwidgets writes – The Stribe’s original name was “xenome” – a nod to Brian Crabtree’s amazing monome 40h project, which inspired me to build the first Stribe in the summer of ’07. For many years, I’d been thinking about and experimenting with alternative interfaces, but […]
Michel Lauzière, Master of the Unusual plays the “Toreador Song” from the opera Carmen using wine bottles while roller skiing past them, nice!- Link.
I love old tube guitar amps. I wish I’d never gotten ride of mine. Here’s a rebuild and mod of 1961 Kay 503A instrument amp. Tube Amp Rebuild (and Mod) – Link
