Wow, I want one…

It’s circuit bending with an arduino! Yay!

I’m not one to complain but are you trying to flip the bird to the complaining users?

The Arduino doesn’t have a chip installed…I guess it’s just a fancy USB-serial adapter now?

Looks like a NoDuino to me

they are just showing off it’s CV capabilities (google control voltage).

it’s not really circuit bending either.

most hackaday commenters seem pissed off for the wrong reasons.

looks like they are just using the arduino as a fancy FTDI cable

wow that advertisement: Mmmorpg dating site; that pic is scarry as heck.

a circuit bender to musician is like a pedophile to child, and its like necrophilia to EE

I’ll say what I said about the first Thingamadogshit. It’s a complete waste of time, energy, resources and everything imaginable. What a piece of shit.

There is no, ‘circuit bending’ going on here. The smiley faced noisebox is outputting a CV (an analog control signal) which is being controlled by it’s LDR+LED phototheramin style interface. This control voltage is being fed into the Moog synthesizer to externally control the pitch of it’s oscillators (which would normally be controlled via a scaled control voltage generated by it’s keyboard that corresponds to the chromatic scale).

There are no gate (0 to +5v pulsed note on/off) signals being generated by the box so you are not getting individual ‘notes’ per se. just one continuously varying pitch modulated by the inputted control voltage (which IIRC, as per Dr. Moog’s standard should vary from about 0 to +10v, 1v for every octave above the bottom one on a standard 88 key keyboard). The box’s CV could also be used to control other parameters on another instrument (filter cutoff etc.).

The end result sounds like shit- (subjective I guess), but hey, no ‘circuit bending’ going on here.

little bobob has lost its knob, and cannot find it anymore, Duude! wtf, be a bit more constructive….

Even though i have to agree that it’s a pity that there’s a lot of arduino stuff on this site and not so many other microcontroller ‘hacks’.

Nice box, shame for the electronics inside, have to agree with lurker

@MePipes
there is good noise Apex Twin for example but circuit bending is crap nothing more

I kinda feel bad categorizing the video as ‘shit’, it just seems like a few guys wanking around and playing with the cv output of the box, not a master work that I’d be comfortable showing off to the world. Nothing wrong with that, but as third parties to the video I’m not sure that the rest of us will get the enjoyment that the creators got out of the experience.

@angrydroid

I don’t think that any of us have a problem with that (I don’t at least), circuit bending is great when it is used as baby steps toward something bigger or just viewed as brainless mucking around. People get mad when circuit bending is used to turn electronics into some kind of dogmatic, artsy enterprise that unlocks “parallel worlds that weren’t meant to be accessed” like the wikipedia article tries to spin it.

Good Lord you people complain a lot.

That schematic seems odd… The switch above the lower-left op-amp and darlington appears to switch between two caps of the same value. Wtf? And the emitter of the bottom-center darlington isn’t connected to anything. How is does it bias? Strange…

I want to like Circuit bending… I really do, the concept of hacking an instrument to produce new and unique sounds is so damn appealing and inspiring….

Unfortunately 99.9% of the time the end result fails HARD and ends up just being annoying sounds.

I’d really love to see someone who circuit bends and gets some worth-listening-to music out the other end… surely SOMEONE out there falls into this category.

The new one looks dope. The arduino connectivity is just what I wanted.

I recorded an entire EP of rap/noise tracks using one of the original thingamagoops, running through a Sampletrak st-224′s effects processor.

It is called VOLKSWAGON, Click my name to download it. It sucks pretty bad.

oh no! the nerds are mad!