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dyrodium
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Circuit Bending

Hehe, just another weird hobby i thought i'd try out. For all who don't know, circuit bending is the creative, random shortcircuiting of musical toys, mainly cheap keyboards and toddler toys (speak and spell) to get interesing and usualy downright WEIRD noises and effects. Very Happy
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http://www.anti-theory.com/soundart/circuitbend/cb01.html
Oh ,and if you don't know, www.hackaday.com is a sweet database for tonnes of interesting things that people do and want to show the world... Like this minty mp3 player... Very Happy http://www.ladyada.net/make/minty/index.html
I bought a cheapy keyboard to give circuitbending a go, i'll let you know what happened.... and if i blew it up Razz
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dyrodium
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lol, this is fun! I've added two switches to the keyboard, one making a grunge effect over the instruments (makes a wicked distorted guitar noise) and the other i've attached a switch and a light dependent resistor, and when turned on it varies the pitch according to the brightness levels (you can play it like a theramin using shadows). It also affects the inbuilt songs, speeding them up and slowing them down with light levels (carazy! Very Happy )
I highly recommend this to anyone who either can't work on a bot or wants to try something new, and its SO EASY! Very Happy even i could do it!
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