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.
Make, mod, hack, and bend your own analog noise monster with the new Thingamagoop 2 kit from the Maker Shed! Great for beginners with it’s detailed instructions and photos of each step. Advanced users can taking advantage of the Arduino integration, control voltage in and out, or just bend it like crazy!
Thessia Machado‘s Interference – an interactive sculpture/instrument made with harvested electronic parts. You can modulate both the sounds and the images by shading the light on the photocells. The lcd screen (from a discarded pda) is excited directly by the voltage output from the oscillator. [via Califaudio]
MAKE subscriber Jared writes in to share his latest tutorial, how to make a laser instrument. Using a set of eight laser diodes and detectors, he converted an Arduino into a nice looking instrument.
Moritz Waldemeyer made these fuzzy LED and laser Gibson Les Pauls for OKGO, which I think might notch them a smidgen above Daft Punk in total wearable volts. [via Fashioning Technology] More: OKGO LED jackets
Some audiophiles apparently think graphite resistors “sound better” than metal oxide or wound wire resistors. Whether that’s science or just myth, I don’t claim to know, but making one’s own resistors is pretty cool either way. Troels Gravesen’s tutorial shows you how. [via Hack a Day]
Properboy of goes green with this build of everyone’s favorite stepped tone generator circuit – Here is yet another properboy a.p.c. build, although I have done many with light controlled resistors, this is a first attempt at a solar powered synth.The plan was to create a small drone-unit that I could leave in my window. […]
Powered by Nerd points out this project from Kevin Weekly, the Random Music Box uses a relatively low part count to generate a pleasant pseudo-random song. The cardboard ‘kick drum’ is a nice touch!
