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.
Folks who were at the Bay Area Maker Faire may remember Lorin Parker and Electric Western. They were in the steampunk area, next to The Contraptors Lounge. Now the man who brought you the tube theramin and the steam-driven synthesizer is about to unleash his Phantastron kit on the world, a tube-based voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO). […]
The Guitar Zeros turn plastic and programming into real hard rock.
Bruce Baldwin’s DIY desert dream.
Tim Kaiser’s fabulously weird world of music.
Huh, interesting page about “PLEK” a German designed robot guitar tuning system via Metafilter… PLEK is a unique computer controlled precision robot developed by the German company A+D Guitarrentechnologie GmbH in Berlin. The machine measures the neck, fretboard, and frets and finds differences within a thousand of a millimetre. These differences is then sanded off […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Rob had PCBs made up for his layout of the classic atari punk console noisy synth circuit – Circuit board version of the famous Forest M. Mims circuit, for use in my upcoming workshop. (before anyone gets excited, these aren’t available for sale outside of the workshop, sorry!) Definitely […]
Jörg Piringer‘s speakingObject vocal synthesizer uses accelerometer control to create some very interesting sounds – during my 11 days at STEIM i did a working prototype of the second incarnation of the “speakingObject” (no better title still). it’s basically a vocal synthesizer controlled by two buttons and a three axis accelerometer. it works without a […]
