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.
Sspence writes – “We built a 1000 watt wind turbine to help charge the battery bank that powers our offgrid home. It’s a permanent magnet alternator, generating 3 phase ac, rectified to dc, and fed to a charge controller. The magnets spin with the wind, the coils are fixed, so no brushes or slip rings […]
Here’s a really interesting way to visualize plots via LEGOs, could be useful for all sorts of things. I am Jack’s LEGO collection, here’s Fight Club – “Time flows from left to right (at the end of each row it skips to the beginning of the next row). Movement up or down indicates character movement. […]
Chris sent in this 11 foot Eiffel Tower Go-Kart / Soapbox that’s now up for sale on eBay – Auction, build pages & about the project/race for charity.
Slowmotionlandscape made an Altoid tin pinhole camera, made in a hotel room, then used to take a stunning photo of Coney Island – I really like projects like this, even if you’re stuck in a hotel with just a gift shop for parts, there’s something to be made… Link.
Here’s a fun ebook from project Gutenberg – Hand Shadows To Be Thrown Upon The Wall by Henry Bursill – Link.
Here’s a fully functional LEGO vending machine, it can detect different types of coins and dispenses 3 kinds of treat, source code included – [via] – Link.
Johan made a guitar distortion pedal from an old walkman, there are not a ton of details, but looks like it would be fun to build – “..I’ve taken a walkman and converted it to a guitar distortion pedal. This was pretty easy actually, and I got the idea from the net and I wanted […]
