Make: Technology on Your Time Volume 04

CIRCUIT BENDING

By Cristiana Yambo and Sabastian Boaz

Photography by Bit Shifter

Modify a Casio keyboard (or other electronic audio stuff) and start playing some of the strangest sounds you’ve ever heard.»

Set up: p.93 Make it: p.94 Use it: p.100

SOUNDS OF CIRCUITS

The easiest way to start circuit bending is “playing open circuits.” That’s where you open up an audio device and use your hands or alligator clips to mess with the board inside and see what it sounds like. But it’s almost as easy to permanently “bend” any suitable device by soldering ...