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.
Mindtrip writes – The Problem: I recently installed a StarCom system for an upcoming tour of the Oregon/Washington coast. My girlfriend tours with me, and thus far we’ve used our own iPods with in-ear monitors for entertainment, and hand signals for communication. On this tour a buddy is coming along who wanted bike-to-bike communications; thus […]
imagitronics writes – I started working on my next project tonight and realized that I needed four tilt activated switches. I wasn’t exactly sure what would make a good tilt switch. The majority of online videos and tutorials for tilt switches were either undocumented, mercury based, or actually accelerometers. Luckily I found these small steel […]
Divine Tao (Viodentia) released FairUse4WM which gets rid of the protections on the subscription music for XP (WMP 11), Vista, files bought and sent for Zune and more… – [via] Link.
Fun with sea moss has a lot of good starters and projects for making basic digital sound devices, bleep bloop – Link.
Bryan Mumford has a few really interesting projects, I like “The Automatic Puny Tune Player”, he writes – The Automatic Puny Tune Player is a computerized Puny Tune “robot” that plays songs on an actual wooden Puny Tune by blowing air into the mouthpiece and opening and closing the finger holes with mechanical levers. For […]
This fellow is building an Arp 2600ish modular using Music From Outer Space modules, wow! He writes – So, 17 years ago I made a huge, HUGE mistake… I sold my dearly beloved ARP 2600 in order to buy an Atari STFM (remember those?) I always regretted doing this, and recently thought about getting another […]
Rauz writes – This is a instructable describing how to cumbersomely export your existing iTunes album art and arrange all the covers into a huge grid, leaving you with a gigantic, colourful and vibrant mishmash of popular culture ready for printing and, maybe later, your wall! I decided I wanted to do this a couple […]
