Performous, an open-source Karaoke game
Performous is an open source karaoke/instruments game, in the same vein as Rock Band.
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.
Vinyl + CD on one disc
Musician Jeff Mills’ latest release is a hybrid CD + 5″ vinyl record on the same hunk of matter. I’d love to see a video of it in action or at least a view from the side so that I may begin to guess what it must be like to use it!
Daft Punk/Tron costume
Found in the MAKE Flickr Pool: This brilliant, mysterious Daft Punk costume, ostentatiously Tronlike. I’m afraid I can’t describe provide any more details. Does anyone know who created this costume and how?
Rock Band 3 to offer MIDI input – custom controllers anyone?
We don’t usually cover much in the way of gaming news here, but my brother Kyle sent this item my way, noting the potential DIY aspect – Thanks to Rock Band 3’s new Pro mode for guitar, drums and, yes, keyboard, every single note on the game’s song list will be tracked. […] The good […]
Drumbrella sings The Doom Song
This is a concept design, aka Rain Drum, from one Dong Min Park, whose personal web presence, if it exists, seems to be eluding me, possibly because it originates somewhere in Asia and is completely orthogonal to my English-language googling.
Another hint that whoever created these images is not a native English speaker: The onomatopoeia he or she has chosen for the sound of rain striking the membranes is “doom,” which is not exactly great marketing, but is pretty amusing, both in and of itself, and because it evokes The Doom Song from Invader Zim.
How-To: Cable for iPhone as amp
With parts you already have around your workshop, you can probably build this cable for using your iPhone as a guitar amp, as one Instructables user did: If you own an iPhone or an iPod Touch and happen to be a guitar player chances are you have already heard of either GuitarBud by PRS or […]
Jack Hall – matchstick luthier
Jack Hall from Brighton, England, couldn’t pick, strum, or draw a bow, but when it came to building stringed instruments, he had an amazing talent. You see, every inch of the instruments he built is made entirely with used matchsticks. Yes, dead matches.
