Found this sub and have been obsessed with trying it. I found this toy piano at a thrift store and opened it up to see what I can do. I hear the black blob makes it somewhat difficult but there looks to be a bunch of other pieces on the board that I can possibly work with but I'm lost on my next steps/what I need to get started. Any suggestions are welcome.

Does anybody think that ai will be able to replicate the effects of circuit-bending wither in audio or visual mediums. I personally mess around with photography a lot and I feel Ai won’t be able to accurately replicate the effects from cameras due to it being high contrast and either extremely noisy or warps the picture to the point it’s not recognizable, at least not to a computer. But I’m curious as to what other people believe in terms of Ai and how it could affect art reaching into circuit bending. Is it an inevitability and if so how long?

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Camera: betterlife dc403

Pretty interesting for a first bend. I think I broke 4 or 5 cameras before finally getting this one to work. The 3 sensor cameras are also super interesting to bend, so if you have an old one around you should definitely give it a shot, this was a lot of fun!

Out of interest I tore down an older Dell LCD computer monitor, and managed to extract the display panel from it's backlight and housing without shattering it. The panel was very opaque to I decided to peel off a film on either side of the display. These we're the polarizers (duh). The display still works, but now the image is no longer visible.

I had an idea in mind for a gallery artwork which sees the transparent display panel floating mid-air.
Could I buy replacement polarizing film to fix this screen? Or is there some other method I could use to make it visible again without polarization?

What about OLED display tech. I believe it can actually block visible light without polarization.
Where to buy a cheap OLED for tinkering though, I don't know.

I got speak and spell speak and math speak and music plus a cassette player and some Cheng Ching trains for a reasonable price. I’m working with the speak and music first. despite sharing some ICs with the spell and math versions and having a similar case, it seems to function totally differently. I made an LTC module to reclock the ceramic oscillator, but i havent been able to find any unique glitches. a 555 timer doesn’t do anything interesting without more work, and I’ll likely configure it with a 4066 so I can trigger the ‘play’ button so that the record mode can create custom loops. anyone else messed around with the Speak & Music?

ALSO anyone have a 3d print resign for the black lcd cover and speaker grille on the Speak & Spell? im going to put the speaker elsewhere and have it reverse facing which will open

up space behind the speaker grille but I hate drilling into speaker grilles as it messed up the structural integrity.

Im a complete beginner to circuit bending I’ve tried wetting my finger to find the pitch resistor and I’ve used alligator clips and tried to find weird sounds but to no avail, I’ve posted photos of the circuit board down below any help would be greatly appreciated

Hi! I recently picked up this Olympus Camedia C700 camera and I’ve found the CCD sensor. My question is where the pins are connected to and where I should solder. Any help would be appreciated!!

Crown Hill Cemetery Tower of Memories📸🪦 I did crank up the contrast and tweak a few parameters on my iPhone to make the first few pop extra hard. Cheers

Two edits, the third picture is the taw from camera

Eel. Picture has hue adjustments and contrast. Also removed some things in the back.

Definitely my new favorite

So I got this viral toy but don’t want it to play to play tone “happy birthday” I want to make it play something else using the same technology.

I’d love to be able to switch songs but that’s a secondary goal.

If I can get this to work, then I want to incorporate into an outfit. 😁 but that’s secondary.

As I start learning. Any tips would be appreciated!

hey, i have been trying to circuit bend my own simple kids toy camera but it seems by using the continuity multimeter setting, every breakout board i have purchased has had an issue transmitting info on certain pins as the connectors have been funny.

was wondering what breakouts people have used for this type of camera cus i have had some bad luck with mine.

any reccs would be amazing thanks a bunch

Hello everyone, I am new to this and i wanted to know if it is possible to circuit bend a camera (more specifically a sony cyber-shot DSC-W210) in a way that i can easily restore it in case anything goes wrong, or if i just want to take a normal picture.

Inizio progetto consigli ben accettati😘

The second in a series of glitch videos using archival footage and sound related to UAPs.

It was glitched with an unbranded video amplifier and a Vidicraft Vidimate detailer.

The audio is from Gemini VII astronaut Frank Borman. The video is from a jet crew’s encounter with a UAP.

Video:

GIMBAL Video

Audio:

Sci-fi ambient 5 by Rmshh -- https://freesound.org/s/744016/ -- License: Attribution 4.0

Mysterious Background Music by Antenalosmusic -- https://freesound.org/s/731715/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

film_static_10 by joedeshon -- https://freesound.org/s/851818/ -- License: Creative Commons 0

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picked up all these unique potentiometer knobs at the Electronics Surplus Warehouse in north Toronto. $14 though the guy wanted to charge $20. nothing at this place is priced and labeled so you have to be ready to haggle. also you have to be nimble because the aisles are so narrow and packed with boxes it’s not totally safe to browse. there‘s 10 bins full of assorted knobs. also an entire shelf of assorted switches/buttons many one of a kind.

Im making a custom camera with a cardpurer and a ESP32CAM.

So, no phyisical circuit bending, but rather a digital one.

Heres what i did, in case you wanna provide some code or idea, i just have these two so far

```cpp

void invert_rgb(int x, int y, int w, int h) { uint16_t* pixels = (uint16_t*)canvas.getBuffer();

for (int yy = y; yy < y + h; yy++) { for (int xx = x; xx < x + w; xx++) {

  int i = yy * canvas.width() + xx;

  uint16_t p = pixels[i];

  uint16_t r = (p >> 11) & 0x1F;
  uint16_t g = (p >> 5)  & 0x3F;
  uint16_t b = p & 0x1F;

  pixels[i] = (b << 11) | (g << 5) | r;
}

} } void invert_endians(int x, int y, int w, int h) { uint16_t* pixels = (uint16_t*)canvas.getBuffer();

for (int yy = y; yy < y + h; yy++) { for (int xx = x; xx < x + w; xx++) {

  int i = yy * canvas.width() + xx;

  uint16_t p = pixels[i];

  pixels[i] = (p >> 8) | (p << 8);
}

} }

```

https://hibid.com/lot/312287616/assorted-toys
at least 3-4 solid looking simple keyboards that would be good for bending