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.
Handmade Music in NYC is this Sunday: Handmade Music is part party, part science fair. Come meet people who make things that make music. This month: A duo of classical guitarists who play video games with their instruments A project that sequences beats as you play a game of checkers Chip music on Game Boy […]
Bleep Labs, creators of the Thingamagoop, are debuting a new version of their Bit Blob electronic noisemaker. The Bit Blob is a digital noise maker that’s controlled by connecting its contacts together, allowing you to bend your way through unlimited sonic madness. You can also connect LEDs, audio outputs, or other Bit Blobs between control […]
Meet Meeblip, The Open Source, Hackable Digital Hardware Synth… Peter writes – Making music, making blips and bleeps, turning knobs, plugging in keyboards, and having the freedom to modify your gear รขโฌโ these are good things. And thatรขโฌโขs why Iรขโฌโขm so excited that today is the day the MeeBlip launches. Itรขโฌโขs been several years in […]
OK Go’s latest video, “Last Leaf,” employs pieces of toast as the canvas for a laser-etched, illustrated stop-motion music video. After watching the multitude of different shapes, textures, and shades of toast pass before my eyes (15 pieces of toast per second), it begins to remind me of watching an old reel-to-reel film in elementary […]
Christopher Carlson‘s “feedbox” noise machine is guaranteed to drive roommates and neighborhood dogs crazy, but it’s undeniably clever. this prototype noise machine was built for a lab assignment in music 250a – physical interaction design for music at stanford university’s center for computer research in music and acoustics (CCRMA). the task was to construct a […]
The Gakken SX-150 has always been a really popular kit in the Maker Shed. We have posted a lot of projects that involve hacking and modifying of the SX-150. We’ve see Arduino controlled versions, fooling around with plasma, incredible analog cassette hacks, button mods, and more! Collin did a really nice video review too! Did you hack and mod your SX-150? Are you planning on it? Let us know in the comments. Thanks!
Check out this awesomely practical little guitar pick punch. You could buy a huge pile of picks for what it retails for, but then you wouldn’t get the satisfaction of creating your own custom picks out of flat pieces of plastic and other pick-worthy scraps you’ve got laying around.
