Circuit bending is by no means a new idea. Through the clever short-circuiting of normal electronics, modders have been inventing some pretty incredible sound effects for years (the Speak & Spell is a ...

The [Tymkrs] crew has come up with a pretty neat circuit bent toy keyboard hack. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good circuit bending hack. This project started as a way to demo the [Tymkrs] ...

The robot monkeys prepared to do battle as two dozen cracked-open toy pianos bleated a symphony of mutated children's songs. Enterprising geeks prodded the toys' exposed innards with alligator clips, ...

From toy guitars to the Furby Gurdy, modders have been taking cute, cuddly kids’ toys and transforming them into the demented, terrifying instruments of your nightmares for years now. The folks at ...

The Bent Festival in New York City is a circuit-bending convention where adventurous geeks rewire toys and electronic gadgets. From NPR New, this is WEEKEND EDITION. I'm Lynn Neary. For some people, a ...

A DARTH VADER voice changer. A small library of educational Touch & Tell toys. A battery of Happy Rock drum machines. Thomas Uliasz came to play. But in his hands, those toys were not meant to amuse a ...

Rewiring audio toys to make new sounds. It involves exposing the circuit board in a device such as a Texas Instruments "Speak & Spell" toy and short circuiting leads until an unusual sound is ...

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 ...

If you’re anything like us, more than a few of your projects were borne out of the fact that you had some crusty bit of gear that was badly in need of a second lease on life. Whether it was a ...