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Some of Edwin's gear:

Circuit-bent Girly Drums. This used to be a no-name beat-
box thing with two flashing LEDs that pulsed with the beat.
After re-casing it I added a pitch shift knob with an on/off
control (the shiny red button on the side). I left the original
controls intact out of laziness. The RCA jacks on the left side
are connected to an LDR pointed at one of the LEDs inside
which will hopefully let me patch this to other instruments in
such a way that I can use the Girly Drum as a tempo-based
switch controller.

Circuit-bent Alphabet Desk. This is the newer type of Alpha
Desk, and the only bends I was able to find on the board
triggered things that an un-bent Desk could already do. So all
this has is a low power pot which loops your keypresses, but
only for as long as you're pressing the key. Otherwise it loops
the "Hello!" that it plays when you turn it on. The pot controls
how much of the sound is looped, second pot is for volume.


Circuit-bent Barnyard Banjo See n Say. This is one of the
most annoying toys I have ever encountered. It plays really
obnoxious songs very very loudly. The big black knob is a
variable power control, and the tiny switch on the kneck is
for glitching. Now it makes static washes and dirty tones.
Still needs a volume control.


Circuit-bent Barbie Karaoke. I stole the idea for this from
Casper Electronics, one of the very best circuit benders I've
seen. Mine is not as cool, with only a variable speed control
for the tape player, plus body contacts to control echo feed-
back and time. The knob on the top randomly triggers feed-
back as well, and can be turned 360. One cool thing is the
placement of the feedback contacts, which are screwed into
Barbie's eyes:



Keyboard Keyboard. Circuit-bent no-name toy keyboard.

This thing now has an added volume knob. With the battery
power down and the pitch up this thing will lock into random
howls and buzzes or shriek a tone that will abruptly
become dogs barking or birds chirping. One of my favorite
keyboards just for how cool it looks.



And of course the ubiquitous Circuit-bent Speak and Spell.
Pitch shift and melody loop switches on the front and glitch
and output lock switches on the back. The added box has
a 555 timer that automates the pitch and output lock,
creating weird vibrato tones and rythmic patterns.


Casiotone 401. I traded a guy a homemade percussion
instrument for this, and then tried to bend it unsuccessfully.
All that I succeeded in doing was making it so that the
beatbox turns on whenever you turn on the power.


Francini Accordian. One of my favorite things to play.


Schilling Toy Accordian. The only advantage that this has
over the real accordian is that I won't feel bad about opening
it up and making it electric.


Bontempi Air Organ. I got this along with a couple other
items from Dan of Fakeproject. It is stepping in for my pump
organ, which is currently in storage.


This is Metal Object #5, also known as the Bonecrusher
since this is what broke Adam M's wrist. Check out the output
jack in the upper right-hand corner.


Metal Object #2. Just a sheet of steel with a contact mic on it.


Metal Object #4. A section of C-shaped metal beam, with a large
spring stretched the length of it, and a guitar string on the side.
The spring can be struck or rubbed for big boomy bass, and the
string is bowed to make horror movie wails.


Casiotone CT-605. Just an awesome keyboard. I might bend
it sometime, but probably not.


Casio EP-10, a.k.a. the Muppet Babies keyboard. This has
an output jack on it so I've just used it as is so far. For
future bending.


Mini-Korg Synthesizer. Fat, analog sounds. Always useful.


Circuit-bent Casio MT-205. Another keyboard I got from
Dan, this one had a bunch of wires for possible bends hanging
out of it when he gave it to me, so I just hooked them up to a
patch bay and housed it in an old surge protector.


Circuit-bent Casio PT-82. This one has a permanent bend
that makes every preset tone sound like its playing through
a garbage disposal. Another gift from Dan.


Circuit-bent Casio SA-2. The usual SA-2 aleatron. Made
using the Casper Electronics method.


Circuit-bent Casio SK-1. My second attempt at circuit
bending (the first being a Speak & Math which I completely
fried), now about five years old. Very serviceable bending
job. I really want to do another soon.


American Printing House for the Blind Tape Recorder.
Everything you could want from a tape recorder. Coarse and
fine speed control, plays one side forwards and the other in
reverse.


Marantz PMD222. Everything you could want from a tape
recorder and then some. Coarse and fine speed control;
seperate record and playback volume; quarter inch, eighth
inch, xlr, rca and telephone jack recording inputs; and you
can use it as a tape delay.


Everything else. All the patch cords of various sorts, digital
delay, wah and distortion pedals, switch boxes, mixer,
microphones and minidisc recorder.