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 is the best paper reference to this stuff. If you feel a little, ahem, inadequate on skills after seeing the artistry in these entries, as I certainly do, it’s the place to go. Now that you’ve got your feet wet, well worth checking out the book for some additional chops! -PK]