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.
Check out the Doomsday Sound Kit from the Maker Shed. It’s a really cool sound generator based on circuit bending a toy. It’s easy to build and a lot of fun to play. I haven’t made a video yet, but there is one posted in the Maker Shed. A noise generator that operates entirely on […]
Flickr user solipsistnation created this rather awesome sample sequencer using Meggy Jr. and an Arduino WaveShield – The Meggy Jr RGB from Evil Mad Science running MeggySeq, driving a Wave Shield from Lady Ada. MeggySeq is a pattern-based drum machine sequencer. It has 8 patterns of 16 steps each and each step can play one […]
From the MAKE Flickr pool Another compelling artifact from Ranjit’s adventures in musical instrument making – Instrument-a-day 24: Mobius Music It’s a familiar tune played upside-down and backwards, and then just backwards, and then upside-down and backwards again. Over and over, forever. Looks like he’s using a DIY music box kit. Hmmm, anyone decipher the […]
Make subscriber Nic used Arduino plus Parallax RFID reader/tags to make his Squeezebox network music player a bit more physically intuitive/interactive. I’m not the first to think of controlling music with RFID, somebody made a pretty neat player called PlayStand way back in 2002. But its RFID reader was plugged directly into the PC. I […]
Phil Clandillon sends this music video of The Mentalists playing Kids, originally by MGMT. The Mentalists are an all female act based here in London. They’ve done this unusual cover of MGMT‘s “Kids” played entirely on their iPhones and iPod Touches, using apps from the application store. What kinds of great music can you play […]
After scoring some bargain-priced touch screens, James set to work on building the Touchduino – I used two analog pins and one digital pin for this project. I wired the touch screen to the 3v pin, the Gnd pin and the analog pins 0 and 1 set to input. In the code (digital) Pin 3 […]
Pascal completed this amazing 250+ hour mod combining an unassuming upright piano with a KORG Triton synthesizer keyboard. It’s a surefire way to spice up those holiday sing-alongs! [via Matrixsynth]
