How to Use the Circuit Board from a Kid's Keyboard for Circuit Bending

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BENDERELLA: This is a little--slightly more complicated example that I have put together. This is and you can see it's--I've basically installed circuitry from one of these kid's toys. I've taken it out of the original casing and I've kind of put it in to an original casing. So everything that's in here was inside of, kind of like a kid's keyboard that probably would have been $15 new and $2 dollars at a thrift store, and instead of using the actual casing that that came in that came I just kinda found this little velvet, kinda jewelry box and drilled some holes in it and I've installed these switches. These are the switches I got from a kinda components supplier. It's got a little microphone in it, little selector switch and you can see the, you know, this the speaker and there's a whole bunch of wires in there and there's the circuit board that was inside that organ. So this is kind of an example where I've, you know, kind of put it in the new casing and this one isn't-- doesn't really make you know particularly strange sounds as much as what it does as, this particular one just depending on what combinations of buttons you press. It just calls up different notes or different tones that are on that circuit board that were in that little piano. So you can hear, you know I can go. You know, that's not really a scale but that's kind of what's cool about it. You know, it's just-- so I've kinda wired it up so there's sort of this unpredictable note that comes out depending on what two buttons you press. You know. So that's kinda cool and this one again has a 1/4-inch jack in which you can plug it in so it's sort of another kind of approach to circuit bending which is--rather than taking something like these other three examples and tweaking them so that they kinda make these sort of crazy distorted sounds, you can also just break something apart and rebuild it in a different way like I've done with this one.

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