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.
So delightfully bizarre! Mika Satomi and Clemens Pichler developed these DJ hoodies with soft switches, zipper switches, and a knit stretch sensor to help performers engage in a DJ battle. Their project documentation is stellar! DJ Hoodie is a wearable interface that includes 4 channel zipper switch, fabric buttons with LED indicators and fabric pressure […]
Matti Kariluoma and a friend picked up a used guitar for a friends birthday, and wanted to add something special to it.
Think Reactable from Björk’s Volta tour meets Revenge of the Nerds jam band meets a steel drum playing organ grinder. That about sums up this fabulous technobusker apparatus that’s sure to attract numerous patrons.
Don’t you hate it when you are trying to perform an electronic piece, and find that your dot matrix printer controller has broken?
Hack a toy and make it sound crazier than ever!
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Get the PDF for this project here: http://blog.stage.makezine.com/archive/2010/08/weekend_project_easy_pitch_control.html
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Australian maker Doug Jackson (he of the networkable watering system controller) built this cool-looking analog stylophone. Want to make your own? Download the schematic and PCB files (.zip) and peruse the Instructable.
Ranjit Bhatnagar made these City Bird bird call sculptures by reverse-engineering some old children’s toys and producing new records for them on a laser cutter.
