Saturday, December 22, 2012

Circuit Bent Vtech Talking Little Smart Spelling Book

What is circuit bending?

"Circuit bending is the creative customization of the circuits within electronic devices such as low voltage, battery-powered guitar effects, children's toys and small digital synthesizers to create new musical or visual instruments and sound generators."

Circuit bending is like flying over a city in a plane. You see roads and buildings below in organized columns and rows but inside those buildings and at a closer look you can see there is chaos within.
A project I discarded a couple years ago because I bent it to literal DEATH. Gallons of glitches:








Saturday, December 15, 2012

GO TO SLEEP SYNTH!

A friend of mine asked me to make a droning noise maker to make his baby go to sleep. He and his wife had broken their vacuum cleaner using it to help the baby fall asleep so I started designing these:


WORK IN PROGRESS 2013

WORK IN PROGRESS 2013:
TOUCH SYNTH WITH COMPLEX WAVE GENERATOR

PORTABLE AMP

PORTABLE 9 VOLT AMP
WIP FOR 2013

WORK IN PROGRESS: GUITAR TREMOLO PEDAL