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, weโll 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.
Constructed from a motor and various bits of wood, plastic, and styrofoam, this retro gramophone kit offers the allure of carving grooves intoย compact discs and Dixie cups with aย sewing-needle-based pickup andย playback assembly. Illustrated instructions in both Japanese and well-translated English are included, and the hour-long assembly only requires a screwdriver, some scotch tape, and a […]
Named after the Norse goddess of youth, the Seas Idunn kit sets a high standard for DIY speakers. Cabinets come fully assembled in black ash, cherry,ย or maple, and the crossover also comes prebuilt, so installing it is just a matter of affixing it to the boxes and attaching the drivers. All told, the build took […]
Speaker design master Curt Campbell hasย created several dream kits for the audiophile, including the TriTrix. Featuring two 5.25″ Dayton Audioย woofers and a single tweeter in MTM format, the final product has an easy, 8ฮฉ load that can be used for audio or home theater systems. The transmission line kit includes precision-cut MDF for makingย the cabinets, […]
Just one listen to this home-built, high-end tube amp, and you’ll quickly discover that thereโs more to that classic song you’ve been listening toย for years. It has nothing to do withย nostalgia โ tubes just sound more musical than pure solid state, and the PoddWatt is a prime example. So, what can you get from a […]
The great thing about this kit is the variety of skills youโll learn. Not only do you end up with a warm-sounding tube amp, but you also learn how all these audio components are produced, as well as proper soldering technique, orientation of polarized capacitors, spacing of large-value wirewound resistors, and heat sinking of transistors. […]
This kit gets top marks for ease of assembly and low price, and because itโs preprogrammed to do all the heavy lifting, all you need to do is solder it together and attach it to the device of your choice. Itโll take an average-skilled solderer 1ยฝ hours to assemble, and from there the possibilities are […]
As this post goes live, we are eleven hours and eleven minutes into the eleventh day of the eleventh month of the eleventh year of the twenty-first century. 11/11/11 is being hailed, variously, as “Elevensday,” the Last Binary Day of the Century, and Nigel Tufnel Day, and we here at MAKE would like to invite you to celebrate by joining us in building something, perhaps this weekend, that goes to eleven. Just be careful not to confuse feet (‘) and inches (“).
