{"id":152704,"date":"2026-03-25T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T23:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/?p=152704"},"modified":"2026-04-01T10:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T15:04:46","slug":"how-to-make-a-electronic-wind-instrument-from-a-disposable-vape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/25\/how-to-make-a-electronic-wind-instrument-from-a-disposable-vape\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Make An Electronic Wind Instrument From A Disposable Vape"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"This Disposable Vape Is Now a Synth\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TyoWpvDcDs0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>In this video, maker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@BeckyStern\">Becky Stern<\/a> takes a look at turning e-waste from a disposable vape into a simple electronic wind instrument.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s sort of an Atari Punk Console on vape juice!<\/p>\n<p>With 11 million disposable vapes sold per month, spent hardware should be easy to come by at no cost.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>Video Summary:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">&#8220;I turned a disposable vape into a synth. In this DIY electronics build, I reuse parts from a disposable vape and combine them with a classic 555 timer oscillator circuit to make a tiny breath-controlled musical instrument.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Inspired by a project from shuang cai, David Rios, and Kari Love, this tutorial covers prototyping on a breadboard, tuning the resistor ladder with photoresistors, and packing everything back into the original case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instructables.com\/Vape-Synth-Novelty-Musical-Instrument\/\">Instructable version<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With 11 million disposable vapes sold per month, spent hardware should be easy to come by at no cost.\u00a0\u00a0&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/content\/2026\/03\/25\/how-to-make-a-electronic-wind-instrument-from-a-disposable-vape\/\">Read More <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How To Make An Electronic Wind Instrument From A Disposable Vape<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":152705,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[34],"tags":[3760,201,1113],"class_list":["post-152704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electronic-instruments","tag-atari-punk-console","tag-electronic-wind-instrument","tag-synth-diy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/vape-synth.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152704"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152704\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152776,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152704\/revisions\/152776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.synthtopia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}