Circuit-bending: build your own alien instruments

✍ Scribed by Reed Ghazala

• Publisher: Wiley Publishing
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 435
• Series: ExtremeTech
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

• Fans will get bent out of shape if they miss the first book to cover circuit-bending-"bending," for short-the method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound * Written by the inventor of the technology, this book covers the tools of the trade, shows how to build a bending workshop, and reveals secrets that will have readers of all levels making sweet music in no time * Readers learn basic bends, body contacts, and other bending skills, as well as ways to create bent instruments from a variety of popular toys and electronic devices * Features some of the author's own unique creations"

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents at a Glance......Page 20
Bending the Headspace of Electronic Design......Page 38
Circuit-Bending’s New Instrumentarium......Page 48
Considering a New Music......Page 56
Tools of the Trade......Page 66
Your Electronic Parts Supply......Page 82
The Well-Behaved Workspace......Page 110
Soldering Your Way to Nirvana......Page 120
Designing Your Personal Alien Orchestra......Page 138
Building the Bent Instrument......Page 166
Bending Beyond the Basics......Page 184
Finishing Techniques......Page 210
The Instrumentarium: An Overview......Page 234
Project 1: Original Pushbutton Speak & Spell Incantor......Page 242
Project 2: Common Speak & Spell Incantor......Page 252
Project 3: Speak & Read Incantor......Page 260
Project 4: Speak & Math Incantor......Page 266
Project 5: The Casio SA-2 Aleatron......Page 274
Project 6: The Casio SA-5 Aleatron......Page 280
Project 7:The Realistic Concertmate 380 Aleatron......Page 286
Project 8: The Casio SK-60 Aleatron......Page 292
Project 9: Casio MT-140 Aleatron......Page 300
Project 10: Casio SK-1 Aleatron......Page 306
Project 11: Mall Madness......Page 312
Project 12: The Inverter......Page 318
Project 13: Electronic Rap Pad......Page 324
Project 14: Bent Book Strip......Page 330
Project 15: Cool Keys Bent Music Stick......Page 338
Project 17: The Harmonic Window......Page 350
Project 18: Hyper Sax......Page 360
Closing Words......Page 370
One Dozen of the Best Generic Bends......Page 374
Benders’ Resources......Page 388
Common Electronic Components and Their Schematic Symbols......Page 398
Index......Page 412