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.
A Make: Blog reader, garydion, posted this in response to my Making Arduino sing piece: On the topic of music on microprocessors, be sure to check out this site where a wavetable synthesizer is programmed into an Atmel ATtiny45. Amazing! I had to download the code and program a chip to confirm it really does […]
On uC Hobby, they’re beginning a series on bringing sound to Arduino: This is the first in a series of articles about generating sound with an Arduino. The goals are to generate good quality sound which can be used to play simple tones, stored music, sampled sound, and even act as a MIDI synthesizer. I […]
Peter Kirn of Create Digital Music Writes: We’ve completed the Circuit Bending Challenge, a collaboration between CDM and GetLoFi. In just one day, people whipped up wild and crazy circuit-bent creations, from zombie Jesus to gun zapper things, playing guitars and keyboards, an infant performing circuit-bent music (really), the requisite bent Furby, and more. Full […]
Fran Holland’s amazing “Balloon Organ” – [via] Link.
This photocell and knob controlled synth called “Mochika” was built by one of our Scrapyard Challenge workshop participants from Peru. The idea was to build a synth that doesn’t break the bank the way that commercial synths often tend to do. Atomosynth = Link
DIY Life has a link wrap-up piece of how-tos on building xylophones from everything from pipes, bottles, wood, wrenches, even stone. Build a xylophone out of almost anything – Link Related: Wrench Xylophone – Link Xylophone Windchime – Link
Sleepydog sent in this cheap and easy, make a very cool laser light show driven by your favorite music.
