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 …

If you’re a regular reader of SynthGear, you know that we love the Korg Monotron. Heck, we’re even giving them away for free!
Korg themselves have put together a bunch of cool mods (some commercial, …

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 …

One of the last things that I would think of to be steam powered would be any sort of electronic device, let alone a synthesizer. Well Lorin Parker and Sarah Seelig, whom we …

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 …