Circuit bending is the art of creatively short circuiting low voltage hardware to create interesting and unexpected results. It’s generally applied to things like Furbys, old Casio keyboards, or early ...

For a lot of us some sort of audio circuit was our first endeavor into electronics. Speak and Spell, atari punk console, LM386 in a mint tin, sound familiar? If not, you should do yourself a favor and ...

Moog Music was born when a young Bob Moog started tinkering with electronic circuitry. As a boy, Moog built small radios, amps, and Theremins in his basement workshop with his father and the rest is ...

Illustrated in this simple project is the creation of an Easy Dub Siren from a Circuit Bent Keychain along with a bunch of components. The parts that would be needed to build the Easy Dub Siren ...

For the third episode of The Future of Music, I’m in Margate, England, standing in front of 44 Furbies that have been hacked and wired together to create a giant, playable organ. You might have seen ...

Circuit-bending, or bending for short, is a method by which an electronic toy or a device such as a keyboard is short-circuited and modified to create an entirely different sound, which is often alien ...

Remember when you didn't put the NES cartridge in all the way, so it would play the game – but it would be all screwed up? One total genius of a hacker figured out how to get these effects out of an ...

Looking for that perfect sound? You can literally get an instrument to bend to your creative will. Bent Festival, a hardware hacking festival, is showing music-loving geeks how to do just that this ...

Reed Ghazala is considered the father of circuit bending. And if you’ve followed our coverage of the sporadic musical art of circuit bending here on Giz, you probably realize that only a huge hippie ...

There’s a recent phenomena spreading across the internet, though circles of hackers, gear nerds and musicians. All it takes to gain entrance is a little know-how and maybe a Speak & Spell. Circuit ...

When the occasional brand X keyboard shows up in Goodwill or thrift stores, they’re nearly always in need of some TLC. Which is where guys like Mike Walters come in. Walters, an A/V guy who repairs ...