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.
The “International Dance Party”, an installation by the super talented Berlin-based artist, Niklas Roy, is a complete plug ‘n’ play party in a box. Equipped with radar sensing technology, the system can sense activity nearby and quickly transform from an idle box into a psychedelic light and laser dance machine with a 600W sound system […]
Jovial_cynic continues exploring the possibilities of instrument amplification with this simple yet toneful “Tin Can Amp” built using the Little Gem circuit. You may recall his prior work with the baby-monitor/wireless amp Related: Speaker cans Speaker in a Can HOW TO – Turn a baby monitor into a wireless amp
Altoids Tin Guitar
Ben made another really cool guitar effects pedal. This time he used a cheap voice recorder and an Arduino to sample and continuously loop a recording. You can read all about it on his website. He even posted all the code so you can make one yourself. DIY Loop effects pedal Related: Ben made this […]
Ah, the sweet sounds of the doppler effect – The rotating Leslie speaker design has a unique way of giving sounds a sort of warm temporal quality. There are many electronic simulations attempted but designing and building actual mechanical effects is plain awesome. Update: As a commenter pointed out – the above video doesn’t reflect […]
This little yellow-tracked robot roams around looking for something to drum on. It samples the sound, makes sure it is good, and creates little rhythms. There are more videos on the web site that are definitely worth a look. Drum machine robot
Dave writes in to tell us about his LED color-shifting Guitar A bass guitar I made with LEDs that pulse and color shift while I play. The LED control is just a few programs and uses Pulse-width-modulation to control fading and color selections. You can use whatever you want to control these. This isnt really […]
