nice looking project, be a pretty good project to fill a few hours, although $75 per kit seems a little steep, think it’d be more fun putting it onto a project board or diy pcb

Posted at 5:06 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by sidthetaff

Bendable circuit? That board doesn’t look flexible at all.

Posted at 5:10 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by Steve Shockley

My thoughts exactly steve!

Posted at 6:06 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by Rob

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circuit_bending

Posted at 6:52 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by DrewG

looks neat, although I’m having trouble finding details/demonstrations. perhaps it’s the 1993 style web site. text – hr – pic – hr – text, etc…

Posted at 6:58 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by amk

wouldn’t mind to see a video, or at least a sound clip.

looks pretty sweet though. $75 doesn’t seem steep considering how powerful of a sampler it seems. It has a boatload of features and looks pretty damn awesome.

Posted at 8:31 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by dirk

from the circuit bending wikipedia article:

“some see circuit bending as a more spiritual process. in the popular video ‘what is circuit bending?’ artists describe circuit bending as ‘parallel worlds within a circuit that aren’t supposed to exist, but they’re there’…’an explosive psychedelic surreal world of sound.’”

i want to vomit.

Posted at 9:29 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by andrew

So many circuit bending noobs <.<

On a side note, flex-itx never did make it that big…

Posted at 9:32 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by blizzarddemon

@andrew lol, seriously.

Posted at 9:46 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by sarsface

@andrew,

yeah that’s pretty damned awful. i guess circuit bending *could* be a psychedelic and spiritual experience … with the right amount of lsd.

the less popular wikipedia articles are quite vulnerable to weirdo interpretations.

Posted at 11:13 pm on May 3rd, 2009 by amk

For all I know, that circuit board could’ve just come out of the guy’s neighbour’s old VCR. Without a video or at least a freakin’ audio sample, what’s the point?

Posted at 12:34 am on May 4th, 2009 by Frank

if you take the time to look at his website, you’ll find the videos. they’re old though and shows older revisions of the board, but you can clearly see it’s not from a vcr.

http://narrat1ve.com/images/WTPA_095_vs_The_Knife.mpg

http://www.narrat1ve.com/images/WTPA.mp4

Posted at 2:55 am on May 4th, 2009 by drykorn

ok, i have always been down on circuit benders that don’t know about the electronics that they torture. today I eat those words, I looked through the pages on this guy, and even though i still don’t think it’s music, this project has immense potential. This gentleman understands electronics and has proven that to me(in all honesty, he’s more advanced than i am), I only hope that he posts videos or samples from someone who is equally accomplished in music as he is in electronics, that would shut me up for good on this point. wait and see.

Posted at 9:09 am on May 4th, 2009 by aztraph

I tried building stuff on acid. It all blew up.

It was a stupid experiment. -but the _colors_, children the _colors!_

Posted at 9:27 am on May 4th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

A-hey

Posted at 9:27 am on May 4th, 2009 by strider_mt2k

@sidthetaff $75 steep? i was personally surprised at how inexpensive it was. do you even know what it does? what kind of kits do you buy or use for price reference?

Posted at 10:42 am on May 4th, 2009 by nick

A circuit designed to be bent? Isn’t that kind of like a server designed to be hacked?

Posted at 5:34 pm on May 4th, 2009 by Ken

to ken: what better way to bend than to use something designed to. and knowing what you want allows you to tailor the circuit to your needs.

now that i think about it, what would be better than a server designed to be hacked, if you designed it, imagine all the practice you could get cracking it and then writing new software to protect it. that’s a pretty good idea too, good job.

Posted at 7:43 pm on May 4th, 2009 by aztraph

I’ve been waiting for someone to make a kit like this for some time now, and this one seems perfect.
I’ve seen casio sk’s sell for more than $75 on ebay, so this kit is really a very reasonable price.

Circuit bending is great fun and very satisfying, but learning how the technology actually works will be a very useful in circuit bending.

Yep, I’m sold.

Posted at 3:06 pm on Jun 16th, 2009 by squidfanny

video of said sampler in action…

http://www.vimeo.com/5248566

Posted at 6:42 pm on Jun 26th, 2009 by adam

bought one thanks for the above video adam
going to put it all together and post back!

Posted at 3:40 pm on Jul 17th, 2009 by mr x

c’mon guys. Reed Ghazala designs circuits to bend. He designs and builds them to theory, then has his way with them. That’s what this guy is doing. I just got mine in the mail, and I will do the same, without all of the painstaking work that it took to design, test, edit, test, edit, test, and finally, put this out. Don’t hate, participate!

Posted at 9:35 pm on Jul 24th, 2009 by MattyBoJangles