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.
Steve Averill’s drummer may not be much for conversation between gigs, but I’m guessing his low payrate makes up for it. Steve built the “Spruce Deuce” robot drummer using birch plywood, servo motors, and a Highly Liquid MD24 … hmm, wonder if he’s any good at loading the van.
Randy Sarafan made this “Fuzz of 100 Faces” guitar pedal: For a long time I have been a fan of the Multi-Face Pedal and have been having fun exploring the different nuances of fuzz by swapping around parts on a breadboard. However, I wanted to make a more permanent fuzz pedal that I could use […]
Matt posted the steps he took to build a proper stompbox development platform – Designing and building your own guitar effects is a great way to combine a passion for electronics and guitar. However, when testing new designs, I found the fragile circuit on the solderless breadboard was difficult to connect to patch cords and control […]
Colin Mann of Los Angeles created a 64-button RGB monome midi controller sporting 6 slide faders, an IR sensor, a touch-sensor strip, 4 arcade buttons, a 4-digit nixie display, 6-port USB hub, and more. It’s sweet! After more hours than I’d like to admit, even if I actually knew how many, I’m done. I started […]
MAKE subscriber Mike Walters (NYC), from Mystery Circuits, sent us a link to this amazing project he did that turned a Tascam 4-track tape recorder into a programmable drum machine. I love that it looks like something off the set of the original Star Trek. I almost expect to hear the voice of Majel Barrett […]
We’ve covered plasma speakers before, and these vids don’t really add much in the way of additional info, they’re just different variations on the theme — a theme I find endlessly fascinating. The top vid is by way of TechEBlog, the second is from John Warren (via Adafuit). Check out his blog post below for […]
Last year, artist Kyle McDonald was trying to figure out ways to get high-frequency analog signals out of his computer, and noticed that nice VGA connector on the side of the computer.
