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.
MÃ¥rten Bergkvist’s elegantly simple sequencer installation – The Water drop sequencer is an interactive sound installation. It creates sound by water drops falling on suspended iron bars with piezo elements attached. The viewer or performer can control which tones will be played by placing water bottles upside down in holes that are centred over the […]
Gary Watts built his Chumby Guts Kit into a hollowed-out book. Check out the other two photos at his Flickr. More: Build: Chumby Guts kit In the Maker Shed: Chumby Guts What’s a Chumby? Glad you asked! It’s an amazing little piece of technology that lets you get what’s best on the web and delivers […]
Klubmoozak posted this vid documenting a typical bending process, complete with scrap-paper schematics, enclosure dremeling, and a final product demo. [via Matrixsynth]
[Warning – abruptly loud bits around the 1m50s mark] Dave Wright‘s Magneto-Conga percussion sequencer is just dripping with handmade DIY awesomeness – using three Hall Effect Sensors dc speaker is pulse width modulated for speed control mangets are placed on spinning mole can to make rhythms three channels – as many magnets are you can […]
Every other week, MAKE’s awesome interns tell about the projects they’re building in the Make: Labs, the trouble they’ve gotten into, and what they’ll make next. By Meara O’Reilly, projects intern I’ve been tinkering with the electronics on various cigar box guitars for a while, but I’d never had the chance to build one from […]
Jan Van Nuenen made this solar-powered strobe-opto-theremin-synth-thing, the Sunnan Synth. Built using a $20 desk lamp and a couple dollars worth of electronics, it lets you get your beeping and bleeping in while away from the grid.
Unigamer points out Andy Gadget’s Instructable for building an ultra-portable melody/beat box – super cute! This tiny box will give you hours of fun composing your own tunes. You can vary the tune tempo and switch between a pentatonic and blues scale as well as producing a variety of percussion sounds. Load up a different […]
