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.
In case you missed the announcement tucked at the end of Dale’s Maker Faire preview post yesterday, I’m here to tell you the OK Go will be performing an acoustic set on the Solar Stage at Maker Faire Bay Area on Sunday at 5pm. They’re thinking of it as a teaser to their headlining show […]
Ayman Shamma not only made a steel pan drum application for his iPad, but he also made some conductive fabric mallets with which to drum. Great work! More: Collin’s Lab: DIY iPad Stylus
MAKE subscriber subatomic from Chicago, IL wrote in to share his PVC didgeridoos packing 11 interchangeable extension tubes to change the pitch. I’ve built two didgeridoos, with extension pipes to change the pitch. With a 2nd player, we’ll be able to play chords together. I had been thinking about buying a didj for a while, […]
Silverspaceship coded up a simple 3D maze app for his monome 256. Nothin’ like a $1400 premium music controller for retro gaming ;) [via monome: news]
Maker Faire is the ideal place for creative collaboration. A huge advantage of sharing what you make in a public space is the potential for finding like-minded folks who can collaborate and contribute to your project. You can feel it in the air at the Faire and it’s super exciting. This year’s Maker Faire Bay […]
Motherboard.tv posted this video summing up the people, sound & solder of Bent Festival 2010. I can say firsthand, it was definitely a good time! [via cyenobite]
Hunter Scott, a student at Georgia Tech, discovered a serial out on a Star Wars Force Trainer EEG toy, so he decided to make it into a musical instrument. When activated, the electroencephalography-driven toy plays a variety of samples depending the readings from the alpha and beta brainwaves. Mental Note is the name I gave […]
