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.
CMKT 4, the makers of Creme DeMentia Contact Microphones, are excited to announce their upcoming tour. The DeKalb, IL based Hacker-Space-Rock trio will be making their second appearance at the Bay Area Maker Faire in San Mateo, California. Along the way, they will be teaching a number of workshops at Hackerspaces, bringing their total of […]
You probably can’t learn to make a steel pan just by reading a book about it. But don’t you want to know how? Ulf Kronman’s book is 20 years old, now, but remains the definitive work on the subject. Best of all? You can download it for free right now.
Daniel McGregor of Germany shared with us how he took an old broken guitar and upcycled it into a speaker. Daniel got the idea to transform the guitar when he was throwing out an old boombox that was also broken.
Intel will be bringing their real-world version of Animusic’s “Pipe Dream” to Maker Faire Bay Area. Educators sign up to participate in Education Day and help the Intel team tune this digital instrument.
Justin’s device, dubbed the Folkbox, has rows of buttons mounted beneath the neck of the guitar that play chords when depressed. The buttons are hooked up to solenoids that depress the proper strings, allowing the user to play a multitude of different chords.
If you’ve ever thought that your BMX bike was lacking the requisite dj gear, you’re in luck. Designed for an ad by Japanese bicycle sharing service Cogoo, the Turntable Rider adds a handlebar-mounted crossfader, jog wheel controller on the rim, and various other sensors to trigger preprogrammed loops to accompany you as pull trick after trick. Sound too good to be true?
Electronotes is a newsletter on electronic music synthesis that was started in 1972 by Cornell EE professor Bernie Hutchins. It’s a great source for electronic music schematics and circuit ideas. Early contributors to the newsletter were people like Robert Moog and Don Buchla, and a lot of interesting modular synthesizers like the ASM2 are based […]
