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.
The Bridechamber site offers a pretty sweet little collection of synthesizer PCBs and component kits. Including incarnations of the elusive Wogglebug, Yusynth, and a nice collection of chaos circuits from Ian Fritz. They’re also selling some hard-to-find components & hardware at good prices. – The Bridechamber More: Chaos theory schematic
The “Solar Module” from electroKraft is a combination 8-bit synth and MIDI controller utilizing photocell sensor input. We’ve seen quite a few light-controlled analog synths but using that input to control MIDI results in some pretty interesting audio – (skip ahead to 1m50s to hear it in action)
Developed by students at the University of Ulm in Germany, the Timbap DJing interface uses an acoustic timecode signal from a vinyl record to allow a user to select skip tracks, scratch and otherwise manipulate digital audio from the familiar turntablist perspective. But instead of being limited to one LP the user’s entire music library […]
From the MAKE Flickr photo pool Flickr member callum_robey keeps his ears warm, well-fed, and stylishly dressed – I made these for snowboarding a few years ago and recently found them while tidying. I chopped a pair of headphones into the ear pieces of these pink fuzzy earmuffs and shortened the headphone cable. An iPod […]
Want to make an electric guitar from junk? Ranjit will teach you. There are still some spots left in his Electric Junk Guitar class Etsy labs in Brooklyn on The 30th (Wednesday). Sign up here! The electric guitar is a sophisticated and highly evolved instrument. But, you can make your own out of a few […]
In response to my posting of the hat-i-fied version of the Bleep Labs’ ThingamaKIT, MAKE Editor-in-Chief Mark Frauenfelder emailed me this cover from a 1949 Hugo Gernsbeck pub, Radio – Electronics. Thanks, Mark! More: ThingamaHat
Gio writes – Mark has built a small tube amplifier project using the 6T9 vacuum tube. The tube amplifier project is constructed using a purchased PCB. The enclosure is a thin baking pan. A simple project that would make a good conversation piece on your desk. Sorry, no benefits reported from using a non-stick surface […]
