A bubble wrap-popping organ, by Simone Giertz and team, is sure to be your new favorite thing

Simone Giertz, engineer and inventor known for “useless” inventions and “s****y robots,” has a marvel of musical machinery. It’s a barrel organ that pops bubble wrap, and somehow it can actually play tunes.

Here’s a DIY plate reverb, hacked out of IKEA parts for under $100

Can’t afford a pricey plate reverb? Use some IKEA shelving and piezos and get something that sounds amazingly good in this simple DIY tutorial. Best of all – you can do it for under $100 in parts, and it’s not a complex build.

Peter Kirn - August 30, 2022

Watch this video with tricks to get more out of KORG’s west-coast volca modular

It’s still some of the most fun you can get with patching on a budget – KORG’s volca modular. But if you need some new ideas, Audio Wanderer has some cute ones.

Peter Kirn - August 12, 2022

Make your own MIDI-to-CV adapter in a skull, with a 3D printer and CircuitPython

Peter Kirn - August 10, 2022

A DIY violin with a spring reverb tank inside

Peter Kirn - August 5, 2022

mlre is an expanded version of the classic monome mlr, focused on performance

Peter Kirn - August 3, 2022

Liquid Sky UFO modules: wild sounds, enough space for your fingers, plant a tree

Peter Kirn - August 1, 2022

The classic Buchla 208 / Music Easel gets a new DIY expansion – and it can sound totally evil

Peter Kirn - July 25, 2022

Slimshader packs GPU shaders into your Eurorack for live visuals, thanks to RasPi

Peter Kirn - July 22, 2022

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