The video shows cursor and bar control for 8 daisy-chained Stribe1s, brightness control and full display animation. About The Stribe kit: A modular version of the original stribe project. Each Stribe1 has 1 softpot touchstrip and 2 columns of 64 LEDs. Right now, you need to already have an Arduino or some other microcontroller interface… Read More Stribe 1 x 8 MAX/MSP Software Demo
The construction and installation of the Highly Liquid MIDI2600 MIDI interface board into a fully functional Atari 2600. Features: Translates incoming MIDI notes to joystick or keypad control signals for any Atari 2600 console MIDI-controlled Select & Reset outputs Powered by game console—separate power supply not required User-selected MIDI input channel Power and activity LEDs… Read More Adding A MIDI Interface To An Atari 2600
This is the most musical demo I’ve seen of the cheapster DIY Gakken SX-150 synth. On the video, I’m using Ableton Live to send midi data to the processing sketch using a Network Midi connection on the Mac. On windows, you should be able to use Midi Yolke to accomplish the same thing. Then, I make sure… Read More Controlling An SX-150 With Ableton Live, Arduino
All right you Freaxxx. If you’ve been waiting to make a crappy electronic music video, but you don’t have any money, it’s time to get your video on. Brokencyde claims to have broken the code. They’ve figured out how to make crappy electronic music videos for $0.00! Yep – they went DIY and made their… Read More How To Make A Crappy Electronic Music Video For $0.00
This is a demo of Auduino, the Arduino synthesizer. Auduino is a synth DIY project, based on the Arduino board. The audio is coming direct from Arduino PWM output with only a slight external reverb. No other effects were used. Description: The Auduino is a sound synthesiser based on the Arduino platform. The prototype uses the Arduino… Read More Auduino, The Arduino Synthesizer
This is a demo video of the Whacky Sound Generator, a synth DIY project from Music From Outer space.
This is an accelerated assembly video for the $29.95 Gakken Mini-Theremin kit, via Make Magazine. Description: The theremin, invented in 1919 by Russian scientist Leon Theremin, is one of the world’s earliest fully electronic instruments, and is also unique in that it was the first musical instrument designed to be played without being touched. The… Read More How To Build A Mini-Theremin In 60 Seconds
This is a demo of the Electric Western Phantastron all tube synthesizer processing and resynthesizing guitar.
MakerShed is now selling the SX-150 Analog Synthesizer Kit, a $45.99 kit that lets you build a simple synthesizer. Here’s a demo video for the SX-150: There are a lot more SX-150 videos on YouTube, and a lot of people are coming up with SX-150 hacks, too.
Philipp of Making of a Drum Synth has posted a demo video of the beta version of his DIY drum synthesizer. He notes: “Currently i’m working on clean documentation of the drum synth and on PCB’s. One idea of publishing the building process on the web was also to make it accessible for other people.… Read More Do You Want To Build A Drum Machine?
