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.
Dave Fowler of uC Hobby continues his series on Arduino sound generation with an article on DAC (Digital-to-Analog) output options. Arduino Audio DAC Options – Link Related: Making Arduino sing, Part Three: Playing a melody – Link Making Arduino sing, Part Two – Link Making Arduino sing – Link
Interesting touch-sensitive mixers with a LED matrix under the faders, Soundwidgets writes – The Stribe’s original name was “xenome” – a nod to Brian Crabtree’s amazing monome 40h project, which inspired me to build the first Stribe in the summer of ’07. For many years, I’d been thinking about and experimenting with alternative interfaces, but […]
Michel Lauzière, Master of the Unusual plays the “Toreador Song” from the opera Carmen using wine bottles while roller skiing past them, nice!- Link.
I love old tube guitar amps. I wish I’d never gotten ride of mine. Here’s a rebuild and mod of 1961 Kay 503A instrument amp. Tube Amp Rebuild (and Mod) – Link
Theremug, a tea based theremin! Thanks Zach! – Link.
Bladdo writes – Mitch the creator of TV-B-Gone gave us a truly great device. A tiny little keychain that has the ability to turn off or on virtually any tv in under 70 seconds. The only problem is people catch on… people know about tv b gones now adays and look for them. You have […]
Book of Joe has a round up of what a protein sound like, molecular biologists translated protein sequences into original classical compositions – [via] Link & music.
