Articles in DIY
We’re huge fans of the Korg Monotron here at Synthgear, and gadgeteers Denkitribe have hacked one to respond to a Wii Nunchuck.
The Nunchuck controller is rigged up to the Monotron using the WiiChuck adapter, which …
Llyn Foulkes is an artist and music from Los Angeles who likes to do things a bit differently. His website says:
LLyn Foulkes has been called the Zelig of contemporary art. Over the past five …
From the crazy-weird file, Steffest from Belgium has created a DIY cell-phone-keytar monstrosity. The Phone Guitar was born out of a presentation about mobile cross development that Steffest was working on.
He says:
Music apps …
Mike Davenport has hand-built an 8-bit “arcade guitar” synthesizer as part of a DIY senior project for his studies at the University of Florida. Inspired by classic video game consoles, it uses an FPGA (field-programmable …
It’s fairly well known that a flame can actually conduct electricity. For example, many hot water heaters use this principle – a current is passed through the flame, which allows the the heater …
Daniel McAnulty is an electronic music composer, device maker, song writer, photographer, and general all around useful fellow from Oakland, CA. Daniel has come up with the ultimate in DIY audio effects: He’s …
Niklas Roy is a musician and electronic madman. He’s built a DIY device called the Vektron modular synth because he says: “Sometimes, I need to listen to some strange zoundz.”.
The Vektron modular is an …
Readers of SynthGear might already be familiar with Yuri Suzuki, the Japanese audio/electronic artist/musician. He brought us the Jellyfish Theremin and the Music Kettle, among other things.
In collaboration with Yaloslav Tencer, Yuri has …
Yoshi Akai is an artist, musician and instrument designer from Tokyo, Japan. Yoshi has been producing DIY musical instruments with very unique input systems as works of art, and using them in performances.
The work …
Jordan Bartee is a musician, circuit bender and and electronic tinkerer. In a moment of insanity genius, he decided to grab a Commodore 64 and a MIDI keyboard, and then combine them with the …
