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.
Here’s a great gallery of mouse-turned-turnables! Alex writes – While scratching with the mouse usually sounds the way terminatorX users want it to (at least if the feedback I get is representative) it doesn’t really feel like scratching. The only way to get that traditional haptic feedback is to turn your turntable into a mouse […]
Here’s a wonderful junkyard organ from Popular Science 1939 – Discarded bottles, an old vacuum-cleaner motor, sections of inner tubing, and other objects salvaged from the scrap heap comprise the parts of a unique junk-yard organ recently exhibited at Atlantic City, N.J. Individual notes are sounded by air from the cleaner motor blowing across small […]
Meet Mr. EQ – a nice DIY equalizer – While use of a graphic equalizer is often recommended for fine-tuning the tone of your instrument, no feasible DIY versions exist. However, a seven-band equalizer is not necessary to drastically shape the response of an instrument of effect. Adding peaks at certain frequencies can provide a […]
Alinke modded an old vintage radio to stream in music via Wi-Fi… – [via] Link.
Octopart’s hardware blog has a dual channel music player amp (in an Altoids tin, of course)… Have you ever seen a couple sharing a single pair of ipod buds, each listening with only one ear? That was the problem I wanted to solve when I started building dual channel headphone amplifiers while I was back […]
Gattobus writes – Nice experiment using my Nintendo Wiimote as a controller for the OSC frequency of my Moog Little Phatty… (Check out the OSC knob cursor moving on the LP)It sound like a Theremin ;-) Nintendo Wiimote Theremin with Moog Little Phatty – [via] Link.
Tuomo writes – This experiment is based on an example in Nicolas Collins’ book: “Handmade Electronic Music, The Art of Hardware Hacking”. The motivation for this experiment is to learn IC logic chips and to prepare inexpensive experiments for sound making electronics workshops. This is a first version, please be aware of possible errors. All […]
