Plush synth pillows
Wow, here’s some home decor for the synth music maker: the Roland 808 synthesizer pillow and the Big Muff Pi pillow.
Music
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.
Wearable toy piano
Check out this neat wearable toy piano made by instructables user mikamike, it’s hacked from a toy and uses conductive thread and fabric buttons. Via Fashioning Technology.
Text to speech holiday carol
We just finished a holiday “text to sing” program for Yahoo! Messenger where I work, Colle+McVoy, in Minneapolis. Here’s an open source themed maker’s carol for you all. If you want to create text-to-speech music yourself, check out the Festival project. It includes a singing mode which uses XML to describe the pitch and duration […]
VCR display turned amplifier
From the MAKE: Flickr pool 5Volt turned an old VCR’s vacuum fluorescent display into a headphone amp – VFDs are common on VCRs. I have a few of them I took from some broken VCRs. Last night I was working on how I could use them as vacuum triodes. I don’t have much experience with […]
Loudspeaker turned into cuckoo clock rocks the party
This interesting project by French artist Stephane Vigny, is a combination of a cuckoo clock and a giant loud speaker. When the bass is loud, the largest speaker on the bottom is released on a hinge-mechanism and catapulted into the room, retreating back to the cabinet when the sound softens. Although we’re not sure if […]
DIY analogue modeling musical synthesizer
This looks like a really interesting touch screen music synthesizer. They claim to be creating a how-to soon. Check out the link for more information. Broadly, the purpose of this project was to create an Analogue modeling musical synthesizer; that is, a synthesizer implemented using both analogue and digital components that intends to emulate the […]
Luray’s cave-strument
Said to be the world’s largest instrument – the Luray Caverns’ Great Stalacpipe Organ plays the earth itself! – Located deep in the Luray Caverns in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley is the Great Stalacpipe Organ, the worlds largest musical instrument. Stalactites covering 3 1/2 acres of the surrounding caverns produce tones of symphonic quality when electronically […]
