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.
Jenny writes in – This tutorial will show you how to stream your iTunes music library to your Wii through the Opera browser. The Opera browser can be download to your Wii for free from the “Wii Shop Channel.” This tutorial will work with both a Mac and a PC. Things you’ll need: Nintendo Wii […]
Jeff writes – You had covered the last “SteamPunk” Guitar I had built back in April called the “Villanizer” [Here’s] our latest build called the “Nautilus”, another more extensive SteamPunk Guitar. The Nautilus was inspired by the film 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but certainly doesn’t aspire to look like a submarine. Starting life as […]
iTunes hacker Erica shows you what’s hidden inside those new un-DRM’ed music files from Apple, open one of the songs via terminal and you’ll see some of your account information inside the file – Link – it seems like these have always been in there (part of the ID3 tags).
Bozai writes – This is one of my DIY works. It uses a mp3/wma/wav/mid decode chip VS1003, ATmega8L and SD card. It supports various bitrate music file. Supports both FAT16 and FAT32. For the reason of space, resource the screen was not added. But a couple of LED were used to indicate the state. :: […]
Peter writes- Bob Collier has been reimagining thumb pianos, making his own instruments into unusual cases (camera and jewelry cases), adding fake fur, and integrating features like “self-sampling” voice recorders, amps, and speakers. With some light effects, the instruments take on entirely new characters, and he’s worked up a mind-boggling number of variations on the […]
Matt wrote in with his article for the instrument he to his local Dorkbot music event in Columbus last week, he writes – This project started as an instrument for Sonic Tooth, our local Dorkbot music event. I was looking for something where you could put any sound into the mix. As an instrument, it’s […]
This my new favorite circuit bend/music mod, worms. Ashfordaisyak writes – Here we see an ensemble of worms creating sweet, sweet electroacoustic music on an electric touch contact feedback device (battery powered). No worms were harmed, despite the fact that they appear alarmed. They secrete albumen which is a sort of numbing thing (I think). […]
