casio magic light keyboard ML-1

[phantompowers]

I've just bought one of these for a quid!
Has anyone bent one? If so, could they remember how they did it and do they have any schematics?
I've destroyed the last few keyboards I've bent so am a bit wary about prodding around willy-nilly!

[phantompowers]

I've done it now anyway. I've added a jack socket, LED, 2 body contacts and a distortion control with on/off switch. I also added a large capacitor to the output to increase the bass. Seen here plugged into circuit bent Belcat echo pedal.

[Dylan]

Looks nice, video?

[phantompowers]

It's not worth it mate, it sounds shit. Ha ha ha!
I'm rebending at the moment to hopefully get some better sounds out of it.
I'll keep ya posted.

[manufactured zero]

are they anything like casio sa's? I've bid and missed a few of these on ebay. Just wanted one out of curiosity.

[MAGTIG]

are they anything like casio sa's? I've bid and missed a few of these on ebay. Just wanted one out of curiosity.

These actually have a pretty decent Piano sound for a little itty bitty keyboard (they're TINY, my avatar is a photo of my index finger on one of the ML-1 keys). I like jamming on this thing just the way it is, but I'll probably pick up several so I have extras lying around.

I don't know how much like the SA's they are on a technical level, but they are crystal clocked, and the circuit board does pretty closely resemble the graphic I've seen on casperelectronics.com. I'd be happy to take a picture of the circuit board for you if you want.

If you want to hear it I did the piano on this little jam from a couple nights ago with the ML-1 (the rest of the sounds come from a modified My Music Center).

[iwillbeacircuitbender]

I think as long as the ML-1 has the same OKI CPU as the Casio SA series, you should be OK Oh, and not only does the ML-1 have totally different sounds than the SA series, it kinda sounds like a cheap Chinese keyboard