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.
Sorta hacky but pretty cool – The swooftronic 2000 is the original device in the swoof series. It is a very basic digital synthesizer that allows you to vary the upper pitch, lower pitch, note length, sweep rate, rest length and sweep length. Once you have set the desired value you press the play and […]
At first it looked like it wasn’t going to be possible to use the newer iPods with Linux, but 36 hours after the story made the rounds online there’s now some code to get things working… Link.
Gorgeous Atari “pub console” in a tube! Link. More: Atari Punk Console schematics – Link. Atari punk console inside a old Ericsson telephone – Link.
Raphael wanted us to know that it’s official. France is our ally, and we can learn from them. Because — circuit bent twinkly noisy *fruit controlled* thing.
Wow, made an awesome “eDrum” – A DIY electronic drum controller. Source and schematics included! – Link.
Fred writes – Here’s a very quick 30-40W/channel stereo amp that nearly anyone can make. It uses LM3886 chips, and is based loosely on the GainClone amps people seem to like making, using point-to-point wiring and off-the-shelf stuff. The amp sounds great, and is small enough to stick on the shelf at my office! Decent […]
This SMD op-amp project uses the TI RC-4560 dual op-amp chip and a salt water-etched PCB. The builder got the op-amp as a free sample from Texas Instruments and scavenged all of the SMD resistors from old hard drive electronics. The results are not pretty, but they’re functional. The circuit used (with some changes) is […]
