DIY iPad live performance harness
Think Reactable from Björk’s Volta tour meets Revenge of the Nerds jam band meets a steel drum playing organ grinder. That about sums up this fabulous technobusker apparatus that’s sure to attract numerous patrons.
Music
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.
Sequencing a dot matrix printer
Don’t you hate it when you are trying to perform an electronic piece, and find that your dot matrix printer controller has broken?
Weekend Project: Easy Pitch Control Hack
Hack a toy and make it sound crazier than ever!
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DIY stylophone
Australian maker Doug Jackson (he of the networkable watering system controller) built this cool-looking analog stylophone. Want to make your own? Download the schematic and PCB files (.zip) and peruse the Instructable.
Repurposing old toys as bird songs
Ranjit Bhatnagar made these City Bird bird call sculptures by reverse-engineering some old children’s toys and producing new records for them on a laser cutter.
Bit-52’s robot band does “Rock Lobster”
I can’t believe this escaped our radar until now — it’s the Bit-52’s, a robot band, doing the B-52’s epic “Rock Lobster.” Check out bd594’s (James Cochrane, Toronto, Canada) YT channel for some other great vids of machines making music. [via LaughingSquid, Boing Boing, and Dangerous Minds] bd594’s YouTube channel
Tron light show made with Arduino-controlled stepper motors
Kim Pimmel’s amazing effects created with a record turntable and some Arduino-controlled stepper motors. I’ve been interested in taking my Light Study photo series and evolving them into motion pieces. I shot a lot of footage for a VJ gig for FITC San Francisco. So I edited together those stop motion sequences, mashed up some […]