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Mutator for sale.

I have a completed Mutator up for sale. It’s in one of the cooler cases that I’ve recycled thus far. This Mutator is of a new design. I’ve found a way to make this pedal work as a Fuzz as well as an insane noise maker. This mutator has a Volume knob, Gain Knob, Mutation [...]

Tutorial Repair Complete

Still working on some of the other pages, but all the old Tutorials should be good now. I guess I should write some more of those one of these days…
 

Circuit Bending Challenge

On October twenty-eighth two-thousand seven, a prestigious challenge was put forth. Thrift stores raided, fingers moistened, soldering irons heated, and toys violated. When the solder smoke finally cleared, only one could stand victorious with their ears covered. This is the story of my part in that challenge….Ok, enough with the epic narratives.
The challenge was to [...]

Circuit Bent Samples/Sample Albums

I’ve recently setup my Soundclick page with the ability for people to download the samples of .75 a piece, or as an album for 7.99. I’ve setup two albums, one is a collection of Vocal Glitches (like the Speak and Spells and furbys), and one is a collection of instruments that generate random music, beats, [...]

Instruments

Over the past few years I’ve built a wide variety of instruments. Some are toys/keyboards/whatever that I re-purposed through circuit bending and modification, some are oscillator based instruments that I built from scratch, and more and more I’ve been dabbling in make effects pedals. I’ve built more things then I could ever possibly list here, [...]

Clean Up Complete

I’m all done straightening up pages. Probably have a few links to fix as I find them.
Hoping to add some new content once I get some photos and such uploaded. Stay tuned! Same Bent Time, Same Bent Channel.

Pardon our Solder Smoke

 This site has needed straightened up for quite sometime, and I’m a little more then half way done. Working on slimming it down to make room for new content and projects.
  You can navigate to different pages through the side bar as always, and I’m working on setting up better links in the pages that follow. Hope to have [...]

The results

Here
Extensive in process photos here
It was fun. Can’t wait for next time.
-Kevin

Results of the “Circuit Bending Challenge”.

Well it’s all over. 3 friends came over and got their first taste of circuit bending. My initial target “Alphy” the alphabot ended up being a dud, so I went and got a Bloo’s Clues toy was successful with that. Here’s a video with 3 of the 4 that were complete.

 I’ll do more of [...]

Are you asking for a Challenge!!!!!

Small update + some interestingness.
 Been posting new creations on ebay lately. Also working on finishing up a big project, and an old one that I literally had to dust off before finishing (more of a mod then a bend).

I’ve decided to accept the “Circuit-Bending Challenge” put forth by Circuit Master from GetLofi and createdigitalmusic. See [...]