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.
The weather box by Gian Pablo and Lesley Flanigan generates melodic sequences from the current weather in eight US cities – Built into a Fortnum & Mason tea box, is an Arduino-based polyphonic synthesizer, with an XPort Internet access module. The dial allows choosing any of 8 cities. When it is turned, the box retrieves […]
“ArcAttack” is a “High-Voltage DJ” set up that pumps music through a PA while two Dual-Resonant Solid State Tesla Coils act as synchronized instruments. ArcAttack – Home of the Singing Tesla Coils
Jason @ Hackszine writes… I can’t find any documentation for this, nor can I help posting it. I assume it’s a hardware hack that manually controls the floppy drive’s stepper motor, but it’d make my day if this was done in software using standard I/O requests. Either way, the 3.5 inch FDD finally serves an […]
I have a Sony Rolly (Japanese model) and I’ve always want to have it dance over and over as opposed to just one song – here’s a clever hack on how-to do just that…
Lovely sounds and enclosure aesthetic of the Simian Drum Scape from Arius Blaze of Folktek. The lever attachments over what appears to be inexpensive pushbuttons seems an inspiring design for a more tactilely enjoyable interface [via]
Pianist (used to be named iAno) is a virtual piano application for the iPhone/iPod touch. Remember Schroeder, who could play such astounding music on his toy piano? [via]
Hah! This is neat, Radiohead on a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, printer, oscilloscope, hard disks and scanner! – the Maker writes… Based on the lyric (and alternate title) “Big Ideas: Don’t get any” I grouped together a collection of old redundant hardware, and placed them in a situation where they’re trying their best to do something […]
