Articles in DIY
John Richards is a “Dirty Electronics” artist, exploring the music and electronics with an approach that is “designer trash, ugly, cheap, heavy, hand-made, designed to be handled or to come in contact with the body, …
The Drumssette is a programmable drum machine built by musician and circuit bender Mike Walters.
A very creative DIY use of an old four track recorder, it was built using the innards of a Tascam MF-P01. …
khoral is a 32 year old musician based in Nantes, France who uses his synths to write music in the pop/electro/folk/funk/whatever styles. He’s done a great DIY mod to the Korg Microkorg, installing it …
Diego Stocco in an accomplished musician, sound designer and crazy instrument experimenter. He’s managed to combine parts of a piano and parts of an electric bass into a fantastic DIY instrument that he calls the …
LEGO tinkerer Peter Cocteau has created a complete DIY drum machine out of a LEGO Mindstorms NXT brick and 2 motors. Dubbed the NXT-606, it’s a monophonic sample playback device, with 24 percussion …
x9spaceman built this DIY crazy box out of scrap parts, and it makes some great noises. Part synth, part steampunk idunnowhat, it sports 6 Guitar strings, a bass string, a ship whistle, a jaw …
A short time ago, we introduced you to the Velosynth, an open-source bicycle synthesizer, but now we’ve got an entirely new vehicular MIDI machine: the Beatfly.
The Beatfly, created by Hideki Yoshimoto, is a small DIY …
I’m not sure entirely what to make of this, but it sure got my attention. Velosynth is a DIY kit for “an open-source bicycle interaction synthesizer” that attaches to your bike, playing sounds interactively.
Made …
I love drum machines – from the boooom of the tr808 to the snappy kick of the tr909, to all the weird an wonderful sounds from early analogue boxes. Well, here’s a completely different …
Gardenque is a medical professional from Chester, UK and spends his spare time doing art projects. In this one, he’s created a perfect replica of a Korg MS-20 synthesizer in beautiful white papercraft.
The MS-20 …
