Circuit bending is the art of creatively short circuiting low voltage hardware to create interesting and unexpected results. It’s generally applied to things like Furbys, old Casio keyboards, or early ...

For a lot of us some sort of audio circuit was our first endeavor into electronics. Speak and Spell, atari punk console, LM386 in a mint tin, sound familiar? If not, you should do yourself a favor and ...

Squeaks, squeals, blips, and borps emerged from every corner. Techno music was the soundtrack. Computerized voices, farm animal sounds, and well-known childhood melodies rang out. Conversations ...

The Bent Festival in New York City is a circuit-bending convention where adventurous geeks rewire toys and electronic gadgets. From NPR New, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Lynn Neary. For some people, a ...

For the third episode of The Future of Music, I’m in Margate, England, standing in front of 44 Furbies that have been hacked and wired together to create a giant, playable organ. You might have seen ...

Illustrated in this simple project is the creation of an Easy Dub Siren from a Circuit Bent Keychain along with a bunch of components. The parts that would be needed to build the Easy Dub Siren ...

What could you build with a budget of $70? For George Gleixner, it's a homemade battery-powered synthesizer. One that's constructed using a circuit bent a children's Hing Hon EK-001 squarewave ...

Circuit-bending, or bending for short, is a method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound, which is often alien ...

The Fifth Annual Bent Festival is being held in three cities, LA, NY, and Minn, in late April/early May (depending upon location): The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY ...

Rewiring audio toys to make new sounds. It involves exposing the circuit board in a device such as a Texas Instruments "Speak & Spell" toy and short circuiting leads until an unusual sound is ...

SAN FRANCISCO — For the first time in my year and a half with The Daily Emerald, I had the opportunity to cover a game away from campus. The... There’s a recent phenomena spreading across the internet ...