Circuit Bent Samples/Sample Albums

May 29, 2008

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, [...]

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Instruments

May 29, 2008

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, [...]

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Modified Fab Echo

May 29, 2008

Modded Fab Echo
 
 
On a whim I bought one of these little boxes. For less then 20 bucks I figured what the heck! Did a little searching on Aron’s DIY Stompbox Forum, and found out that the Fab Echo uses a common chip to full on delay pedals. After checking over a couple schematics I (with [...]

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Mutators

December 13, 2007

Mutators are a series of effects pedals I’ve been working on for a little while. A Mutator is, at it’s core, the circuit from a toy voice changer used as an effects pedal. I’m not the first one to do this by a long shot, but I build them more like real guitar pedals, which [...]

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Clean Up Complete

November 9, 2007

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.

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Pardon our Solder Smoke

October 31, 2007

 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 [...]

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The results

October 29, 2007

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

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Results of the “Circuit Bending Challenge”.

October 29, 2007

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 [...]

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Are you asking for a Challenge!!!!!

October 16, 2007

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 [...]

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Trying to get back into gear.

September 18, 2007

Couple new things.
We have a Youtube that you can see all the latest bentstruments in action.
See it here
And now there is a myspace for the site.
See it here.
If you have bought something for me, or are interested in what I do, be sure to come and friend me so that you can get updates on [...]

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