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.
From the MAKE Flickr pool Flickr member okini393939 meets the growing demand for digital media among infants with the above-seen BabyPod MP3 player, built using – MP3 Decoder: VS1011E CPU: AVR ATmega168 Memory: SD card PCB: Silver Circuits Box: Daiso 100yen shop (300JPY) Sure, and as soon as junior gets one of these they’ll roll […]
Lennon Luks gives an in-depth tour of the grid-based MIDI controller/sequencer he built as his final project at Western Carolina University. This is me showing some of the capabilities of the MIDI controller that I designed for my senior project. It uses an ATMEGA644 microcontroller. 3000ish lines of C code. I’m much more of an […]
Randy shares steps for adding two key upgrades to the Mini-Theremin kit – True, there are already directions to do both of these things in the accompanying magazine, but what sets this how-to apart is that it is in English. If like me you can’t read Japanese and unlike me, you couldn’t figure out what […]
Randy Sarafan shows us how to make this rad simple sequencer. Wood-grained contact paper is optional.
Replacing guitar pickups is a good option for those wanting better tone without forking over the cash for a new instrument. The process may seem a bit intimidating to newcomers, but it’s actually pretty simple – John’s instructable provides a helpful step-by-step – After some time on Google reading articles mentioning the good things that […]
Instructables member datenkrieger built an instrument from three kind of awesome – lasers, guitars, and synthesizers. I was very inspired by all the youtube videos of laser harps but i found them all too big to bring along for a jam session or they needed a complicated setup and a pc etc. I thought of […]
Evan points out this vid where the experimental music group INVISIBLE demo their unique sequencer, Rhythm 1001. Using a large rotating disc interface, the device triggers an array of found-object percussion via an arrangement of small pegs. Sure looks like an interesting method for visualizing beats/loops.
