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Watch as a telephone is transformed into a DIY analog drum machine
Push-button telephone. Analog drum machine. Arduino Nano. DIY amplifier. Shashwath Sundar, aka simple_but_nerdy, makes the telephone-drum machine fusion seem like it was meant to be.
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What’s new in the DIY world of Music Thing’s Workshop System
It’s a Very Workshop System Jamuary. Music Thing’s patchable music lab-in-a-lunchbox has proved that small-batch personal hardware can attract a select, dedicated community sharing great stuff with one another. Let’s catch up with what’s been happening in that magical village of synth wonder in the past year. Don’t forget, the ideas and code here are all open — meaning this could inspire more.
Peter Kirn - January 7, 2026
DIY + Unusual Modular-Analog Music tech Stories Tech
Guide: Creating instruments with Max for Live and Ableton DSP (pt. 3)
For the final episode in this trilogy on learning Max for Live and Ableton DSP Objects, we’re going to keep the focus on working fast. We’ll learn how to use Ableton DSP to prototype instruments quickly, play expressively, and hack them with some tricks and mods beyond what the stock Live Instruments provide.
Roland’s pedal concept uses AI to let you process everything with anything
Peter Kirn - November 12, 2025
DIY + Unusual Gear Music tech Software Tech
Coffee cups, pizza boxes, everything’s an instrument: watch clipping. play
Peter Kirn - November 7, 2025
DIY + Unusual Gear Music Tech
Inside Kyiv’s hackerspace, a growing DIY synth and experimental noise scene
Peter Kirn - October 16, 2025
DIY + Unusual Gear Modular-Analog Music Music tech Tech
Alpaca interweaves code and pattern, from music to textile to dance
Peter Kirn - September 18, 2025
DIY + Unusual Mode Motion Music Music tech Software Tech
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