unusual bent toys or circuit bending targets

Bogus Noise · March 14, 2011, 03:43:34 PM

It's purely decor - no speakers inside, it's just the mechanics that make the noise! I got it from a car boot a few years before I started circuit bending. The noise had always been mildly annoying, but after a while managed to put 2 and 2 together to solve the problem.

Bogus Noise · March 14, 2011, 04:01:30 PM

Actually, on a similar note to you mentioning disabling the motor on more conventional bending subjects, if you use a voltage divider pitch control the LEDs on some toys play with the pitch as they turn on and off, so I've taken to putting a disable switch on for those as well. But I also agree, the spastic movements can be great, and very complimentary to the sounds

electoyd · March 17, 2011, 07:24:02 PM

dragged this outa da archives, dunno if you guys have seen one of these by texas instruments, a computer fun. It has rather cool little pictures of robots on it. I should really stick batteries in it and listen to it, never actually got round to fuckin it up.

Circuitbenders · March 17, 2011, 09:27:24 PM

way ahead of you

www.circuitbenders.co.uk/demos/computerfun.mp3

electoyd · March 21, 2011, 03:06:32 PM

thats not surprising Paul, you do run circuitbenders uk after all

good to see it's bendable, as i noticed it's the super speech synth thing same as the super speak and spell which i found pretty uncooperative apart from producing distortion or a stream of garble. Was the computer fun a cooperative patient on the modifiying table?

Circuitbenders · March 21, 2011, 05:20:12 PM

Its an odd one. The first one i had was years ago, it was extremely bendable and it produced that demo. The second one i had looked more or less identical but none one the notes i had made from the first one seemed to work on it. I think i might have given that one away.

I think i've got another one in a cupboard somewhere, but unless i get extremely bored one day thats probably where its going to stay, unless anyone wants it................

Simon Vactrol · March 21, 2011, 11:46:58 PM

i love it!!!

electoyd · March 22, 2011, 07:12:58 PM

just listend to the comp fun demo-very good wanna open that up now!...................

Outaspaceman · May 13, 2019, 12:10:38 AM

First post by me!!!
I've just cracked Brian the Robot of the Confused Dot Com site..
On first inspection there seems to be provision on the board for a pitch resistor, but it's bridged...
Shouldn't be to much of a hurdle..!
I hope to fit a pitch LDR, output jack, power starve, diode distortion, and an LFO..
Not sure what the LFO's going to do, but I'll have fun finding out...