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Dum-De-Dum, the Cardboard Drum!

2018-06-14T04:18:00Z

Introduction Making a Cheap Drum Machine Components and Methods Construction Details Testing and Playing Introduction By a couple of months I have started a project for creating a series of low-cost, open source, electronic musical instrumen...(read more)

Tube headphone amplifier

2018-06-10T13:37:00Z

I would like to present a simple headphone amplifier based on PCC88 tubes. This construction was made a around a year ago. This amplifier gives a very fun from listening of music. Main construction based on the White's cathode follower. Here is sch...(read more)

The IOT Wind Chimes

2018-06-10T03:38:00Z

Introduction I have no musical ability. And besides, people have been making music a very long time. Is there anything I could create that is both easy to play and novel? Here is what I came up with: Wind Chimes: They more o...(read more)

Old fashioned Japanese Music Box

2018-06-04T16:50:00Z

Today you can put a Rasperry Pi Zero or PocketBeagle in a project and have the resources of a whole computer to control your project. When I was a lad, all we had were a few chips and transistors. One of my favourites was the 555 timer so I de...(read more)

Beaglebone plays the blues

2018-06-04T16:30:14Z

Simple Music MakerEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a Fog Machine and a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll A project from last year, when I heard the ...(read more)

A Simple Arduino Music Box

2018-05-16T17:02:00Z

Introduction Happy Birthday Arduino and Happy Birthday Project14. players.brightcove.net/.../index.html My entry to the Open Arduino competition was going to be a music box. I'm too late for that, having missed the deadline, so I...(read more)

Homemade Electric Guitar

2018-05-06T22:11:00Z

When this Project14 challenge came up I knew exactly what I would submit. I have been working on this electric guitar for a few months now and just finished it up. I made everything except for the pickups, that is my next step in my instrument makin...(read more)

Simple electronic musical instrument

2018-04-21T07:00:29Z

Simple Music MakerEnter Your Electronics & Design Project for Your Chance to Win a Fog Machine and a $100 Shopping Cart!Back to The Project14 homepage Project14 Home Monthly Themes Monthly Theme Poll The basic idea was to create simple electro...(read more)