With a piece of oak, some string and a cigar box, John Park creates a three-stringed guitar. The cigar box acts as the resonating soundboard for the instrument. John then wires the guitar to a buck-fifty cassette-player amp and makes it really rock. Check out the PDF for this project. Get the m4v, subscribe in […]
Check out the details for Cigar Box Guitar and learn how you can turn a piece of oak, some string, eyebolts, and an empty cigar box into a rocking 3-string guitar. Give this build a shot, and let us know how it turned out. We’d love to hear your feedback (or mad cigar box guitar-playing […]
In this Hidden Treasures segment, Mister Jalopy opens up his Chevy Camaro’s cassette player to show us the beauty and value of clear schematics for makers like him. Check out Mister Jalopy’s blog, Hoopty Rides. Get the m4v, subscribe in iTunes, watch on YouTube or Blip.
Make: television presents: Sunlight Poem – Ji Yeon Song’s one-day poem projector made of cardboard and sunlight. Pedal-Powered Blender – David Butcher outfits a bike with a generator that can run a blender. Handmade Theremin- Lorin Parker’s theremin works great and sounds even better. Time-lapse Camera – Jay Burlage hacks into a clock to create […]
Meet CCRMA, a group of musical makers who stretch the sonic boundaries by turning personal computers into an electronic symphony. Based at Stanford University, CCRMA teams composers, artists and acoustical researchers together to meld music with new technology and explore the outer limits of audio from playground-activated sounds to laptop orchestras. Then see the origins of the synthesizer.
Learn more about CCRMA at http://ccrma.stanford.edu/
For MAKE magazine readers, this weekend’s episode of Make: television may look and sound a little familiar. But the allure of a project that’s accessible, classic, and cool was too great… so we decided to devote the Maker Workshop segment to the Cigar Box Guitar, originally featured in MAKE magazine, Volume 04. Of course what […]
In the first nine episodes of Make: television, we’ve profiled photographers, visual artists, pyrotechnic sculptors, kinetic wave sculptors, bicyclists, steampunkers, musicians, and conservationists. Check out the Maker Profile on Make: television this weekend, March 7th, to see Syuzi Pakhchyan and some of her amazing wearable creations. Syuzi is one of the very first Makers of […]
