It’s on! The Circuit-bending challenge is officially underway!
A quick review of the guidelines:
1. Bicycle, walk, or swim to your nearest secondhand store.
2. Locate and purchase a cheap electronic noisemaking device.
3. Take it home and bend that thang!
4. Document the process and end result, then upload it to the internet in some fashion- Youtube, Flickr, etc, all with the tag “circuitchallenge.” (and createdigitalmusic, of course). Still images, audio, and video are all fair game. Bonus points for all 3.
5. Add a comment to this post with links to your entry. I will add them to the post itself as they are received.
You have until midnight on Sunday. Go!*
(* or whenever you like, because we don’t know what time zone you’re in … see comments for further disclaimers.)
An auto-updating slideshow of all flickr’d entries can be seen at getlofi.com, thanks to the esteemed Circuit Master.
Here are the entries, in order received:
Zombie Jesus by Ryan J:
Link
Mini-Furby by George Lazenbleep (With excellent documentation!):
Link
Mystery Black Box by Evil Paul:
Link
Plastic Guitar by Stephen Haunts:
Audio
Link
The Monster by El Colin
Zapper by Vanillatray:
Link
Circuit Bent Toy Guitar by Johan & Lukas Larsby (bonus points for hilarious video):
Some kind of bleepy, blinky thing from BRIAN!
Images
A Saxophone from Fin, which died in the process:
Audio
Link
Squelchbox knocks it outta the park with “The15 Puzzle”:
Images
Burnkit gear’s Kawa Clone:
Link w/audio
Octatone’s 99-cent guitar:
Link
Kubton’s Little Tykes Keyboard:
Audio
Link
VJ Anomolee destroys the Easy Button:
Video
Link
Here’s my own personal contribution to the day: A Prenatal Heart Listener
Looks like some fierce competition already- keep those entries coming!
[Ed. note: We left out a reference to Reed Ghazala’s superb book on the topic in our story the other day, so let me mention it again. Reed’s Circuit Bending tome