Music
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.
Sound objects make the walls and floors vibrate
The “Untitled Sound Objects” by Pe Lang and Zimoun creates acoustic architecture from organic objects and forms connected up to motors and gears. The duo began as laptop performers but were offput by the lack of physicality so they investigated how to create physical instruments that react to their immediate environment and each other. The […]
‘beamz’ laser music thingy
Submitted for your viewing pleasure – A demo video for the “beamz Music Performance System” laser-controlled preprogrammed MIDI gating device targeted @ non-musicians. I don’t think it’s possible to list all of the memorable moments seen in the above video, at the very least they’re quirky, at most borderline-offensive. (The $599 pricetag alone could raise […]
SX48 Micro-controller music player
This is an interesting SX48 micro-controller midi music maker. You can download the schematics and code on the website. Here is what the maker has to say about the project: This project uses an SX48 microcontroller at 75 MHz as an 8-channel frequency-synthesis music player with three instruments (selectable per channel): square wave, triangle wave, […]
Build your own electric guitar
Here is a nice instructable about making your own electric guitar. Actually, it is about making the body of an electric guitar, and attaching a ready-made neck and electronics. This instructable is really well documented and there are a lot of pictures and descriptions. How to : Make your own electric guitar Related: The Ikea […]
Build an MP3 player to challenge Apple
This homebrew MP3 player won’t make your iPod obsolete, but it’s still a cool hack using mpeg decoder ICs and an ATmega128 chip that reads data from an old 2.5″ laptop hard drive. There’s even source code at the link below. [via], MP3 Player with remote control construction
SynthDIY collective resource
SynthDIY.com is “collective Link BLOG” full of music synthesizer schematics, links and project ideas, like the EFM DBop drum machine – This is really DBopII. I built the first one after I destroyed my Korg Minipop in 1985. At the time it was the only way I had to get a beat on my 4 […]
