Remix Contest: Sounds from the Large Hadron Collider
December 30, 2010 – 10:05 pm | 416 Comments

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest particle accelerator that resides in a tunnel 27km in circumference beneath the earth near Geneva, Switzerland.
The purpose of the LHC is to help us understand some …

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The Electronic Didgeridoo
November 10, 2009 – 9:29 am | 12 Comments
The Electronic Didgeridoo

Kyle Evans is a musician and DIY electronic tinkerer. He’s come up with a fantastic instrument/controller called the “Electronically Modified Didgeridoo”. It’s a regular digeridoo with pickups inside and all sorts of Battlestar …

Face the music – literally.
November 3, 2009 – 8:44 am | No Comment
Face the music – literally.

Daito Manabe is a computer programmer, artist, and all-around crazy DIY guy. He and some friends have interfaced some music with their faces.
The interface sends electrical impulses to muscles on their faces in …

DIY: listening to electromagnetic fields
November 2, 2009 – 8:49 am | 3 Comments
DIY: listening to electromagnetic fields

It’s amazing how many electromagnetic fields are all around us. The cool part about it is that it’s very easy to be able to hear the fields that are in the audible range. …

Lava Lamp MIDI controller
October 27, 2009 – 7:36 pm | 4 Comments
Lava Lamp MIDI controller

Jason Hotchkiss is a DIY-er who has created the ultimate psychedelic ambient music generator. He took a lava lamp, a bit of custom electronic work and a Miduino PCB from Tom Scarff, put it …

DIY IKEA lamp theremin
October 22, 2009 – 8:43 am | 2 Comments
DIY IKEA lamp theremin

Jan van Nuenen is an artist/designer/musician/crazy electronics guy who has created this awesome IKEA solar-powered optical theremin thingy that he calls the Sunnan Synth.

The synth/theremin was made with a $20 IKEA Sunnan lamp, some photoresistors, …

Circuit Bent Festival NYC seeking performers
October 22, 2009 – 12:33 am | No Comment
Circuit Bent Festival NYC seeking performers

Here’s your chance to show off your Kung-Fu circuit-bending skills. The Bent Festival is looking for performers for Bent 2010 : The 7th Annual Circuit Bending Festival.
Even if you’re not a circuit-bender, if you have …

DIY wire recorder records on random metal objects
October 20, 2009 – 10:23 pm | 5 Comments
DIY wire recorder records on random metal objects

This is frikin’ sweet. The wire recorder was invented by Danish engineer Valdemar Poulsen in 1898 was the precursor to the cassette tape and video tape. It started showing up around the 1930′s in …

The Nintendo Guitar
October 18, 2009 – 8:16 pm | One Comment
The Nintendo Guitar

No, this isn’t the newest competitor to Rock Band – this is an actual, working DIY guitar made from an NES console and game cartridge!

I imagine that at one point in the near …

The talking piano
October 7, 2009 – 8:13 am | 17 Comments
The talking piano

Peter Ablinger was born in Austria, in 1959. He’s a graphic artist and a student of jazz, and he is a fairly prolific composer. Peter has made it his mission to question the nature …

DIY Papercraft Roland TR-909
October 6, 2009 – 3:29 pm | 4 Comments
DIY Papercraft Roland TR-909

Earlier, we brought you the DIY Moog Minimoog and the DIY Arp 2600 – we now have a new papercraft project for you to glue together. Presenting, the DIY papercraft Roland TR-909.

I don’t have …