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Day: February 9, 2007

Bent 2400 Baud Modem

February 9, 2007 by Will O'Brien 15 Comments


This one wins my vote for unintended use of hardware. [nathan] sent in his bent modem. His breakout box takes midi signals in and uses them to generate various modem sounds from an old Packard Bell external modem. Now, how about some schematics? Hit the link for videos of it in use.

Posted in Misc HacksTagged circuit bending, circuitbending, midi bending, MidiBending, modem modding, ModemModding

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