DIY Kalimba
In late October we decided with my class to do a secret Santa event. It was decided that DIY gifts were strongly encouraged, which imho was a really great idea. After randomly assigning a secret Santa to everyone, I discovered that I had to make a gift for a good friend of mine that happen to be a big music fan. I immediately thought about building some sort of instrument. In addition, this friend is quite interested in microtonal music, which meant I had to build an instrument he could easily tune (or detune) at his will.
That’s why I chose to build a Kalimba and just for fun, I added the possibility to amplify its signal.
You’ll find tha build instrution on instructable
You’ll find the lasercut CAD files on my github, just here.
And here are some pictures of the result :
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