The Beat-Bike on display through Dorkbot is a pretty ingenious concept. Throw a kid's drum machine and a Casio keyboard onto a bicycle, perform some circuit wizardry, and you've got music that changes as you ride.
Circuit Bending 101 continues as Dan Demchuk offers some quick troubleshooting tips that he employs when his toys aren't producing sounds at the push of a button.
Dan advises past simply removing and replacing...
Offsite Link: The Circuit Bending Workshop is a weekly event hosted by DJ Demchuk in Chicago.
Circuit Bending 101 continues with this demonstration using a Casio PT100. Dan Demchuk works with Allison Lake to get unique sounds and bends from Allison's PT100.
To get more out of your synth, Dan and Allison...
Offsite Link: The circuit bending workshop is a weekly event thrown by DJ Demchuk in Chicago.
Circuit Bending 101 continues with this introduction to purchasing "victims". Dan Demchuk covers the basics of shopping, hunting down, and looking for bending possibilities before purchase.
A big key, of course,...
Offsite Link: The circuit bending workshop is a weekly event thrown by DJ Demchuk in Chicago.
Circuit Bending 101 continues with a basic overview of what items to look for while circuit bending. Although basic, this overview contains the core elements that will pertain to later experiments.
DJ Demchuk...
Offsite Link: The circuit bending workshop is thrown every Monday by DJ Demchuk.
The re-broadcast of the original intro to our circuit bending workshops, Dan Demchuk gives an overview of what to expect from Circuit Bending 101. Trained by several of Chicago's more prominent benders, Dan brings to...
Circuit Bending 101 continues with it's "Basics" segments, this time covering DC versus AC power. While many advanced benders do use AC powered equipment, it is generally not recommended for beginners.
Dan Demchuk hosts our continuing series on the art of anti-theory and circuit bending. Circuit Bending is the growingly popular craft of taking apart battery-powered electronics and subverting their original purpose....
Offsite Link: Dan Demchuk hosts a weekly Chicago Circuit Bending Workshop.
In our continuing and evolving series on circuit bending and DIY instrument creation, we explore the alternative possibilities within the realm of sound.
This entry caught part of the Circuit Bending Workshops run...
Offsite Link: The Circuit Bending Workshop is hosted and run by DJ Demchuk weekly in Chicago.
