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.
Jonny over at NippyChips reviewed our MAKE Daisy open source MP3 player – This is a great little MP3 player and was a blast to put together, and fit into the neat case that I found. I would highly recommend this to anyone interested in electronics. The kit makes the whole process simple, and a […]
Rounding out today’s guitar theme – check out these guitars from Yoshihiko Satoh’s THE ARMS exhibit! Yoshihiko Satoh artworks – [via] Link.
Continuing with Commodore 64 theme this week, Toni is hooking up Guitar Hero to a Commodore 64 – This is the (future) home of my Shredz64 project – an attempt to built an interface to connect the Playstation Guitar Hero controller to the Commodore 64 computer, and then build a guitar-hero like game on the […]
Help spread the word. Getcher bends out and share ’em! This book will be distributed free on line and for a few bucks at the bent festival. [via] – All procedes go to the Bent Festival which will be in LA and NYC in April. – Link
diyAudioProjects.com has several DIY (do it yourself) audio projects for the electronics hobbyist and woodworker. Pictured here, the 12AX7 line level tube preamplifier kit. Thanks Giovanni! DIY Audio Projects | diyAudioProjects.com – Link.
VWORK points to Artist Edo Paulus who made these sun-sensitive musical instruments – check out the video for moving pictures and sound… Resonating-With-Light is an installation that consists of multiple small electronic units in a natural environment with sunlight. Each unit collects solar energy and transforms this energy into a repetitive bouncing of itself onto […]
Highly liquid points to this awesome MIDI-controlled circuit bent telephone modem – what a great use for an old modem, there are millions of them just getting tossed… laboratory fermicirrus – [via] Link.
