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.
This photocell and knob controlled synth called “Mochika” was built by one of our Scrapyard Challenge workshop participants from Peru. The idea was to build a synth that doesn’t break the bank the way that commercial synths often tend to do. Atomosynth = Link
DIY Life has a link wrap-up piece of how-tos on building xylophones from everything from pipes, bottles, wood, wrenches, even stone. Build a xylophone out of almost anything – Link Related: Wrench Xylophone – Link Xylophone Windchime – Link
Sleepydog sent in this cheap and easy, make a very cool laser light show driven by your favorite music.
Here are a bunch of Guitar Hero mods! Another real Guitar Hero – Link. Ultimate Guitar Hero mod – Link. HOW TO – Build your own custom full-sized wireless … – Link. HOW TO – Make a DIY PS2 Guitar Hero controller – Link. Guitar Hero + Commodore 64 – Link. Wireless Guitar hero PS2 […]
This “Sound Chair” was modeled after a sound wave specifically designed to look like a chair in 3D space. The idea is to create a product that can simultaneously exist in digital and analog worlds. We wonder what the dynamic version of this would be… probably a really cool back massaging device. Link, [via]
Joe made this MASSIVE site to help people build a JCM800 Guitar Amp from scratch! – Link.
Brian sent in this MIDI bridge for the iPhone, holy smokes this is cool and looks like it will get even better soon, he writes – Istanbul based vj collective artificialeyes.tv announce the availability of i3L_v0.1, the first iphone to midi bridge for audio and video software as a free download. i3L (pronounced “i thrill”) […]
