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.
Nerdkits shares their process for designing a big LED VU meter, and repurposing piezo buzzers as microphones in the process. I did notice it covers in detail one topic that is surprisingly absent from most electronics project vids – Math! Great to see real live equations put to work in a design from the ground […]
Randy Sarafan’s audio device building streak continues, this time taking the mundane task of the plug adapter to a new level of elegance with the Ultimate Audio Converter – I always find myself wanting to convert between mono and stereo and 1/8″ and 1/4″ jacks and never seem to have the right adapter on hand. […]
Youtuber rudeog added a single coli pickup to his homemade kalimba netting some seriously bassy sounds – Constructed with some parts I had lying around and a few from the hardware store. As you can hear, the dry sound is a little bass heavy. I might try adding a few tines and tuning to a […]
This fantastic music video from Reyna Perez entitled “Love Love Love” was shot entirely on an iPhone 3GS.
Narwhalbot built a couple of monster VU meters for use at live shows, wall-mounting them at home between gigs – awesome, awesome.
Scottish sound designer, the Amazing Rolo, traveled to Maker Faire this year especially to see what sorts of cool musical technologies people were cooking up. He made a series of videos of makers demoing their wares. Of the three videos above, he writes: First up is Elly Jessop, a Masters Student at the uber-cool MIT […]
Matt Mets made a rotation-based MIDI controller using a motor, disc, webcam, and OpenCV. Source code included.
