[sdiy] Any good sites for diy circuit bending

[Robotboy8 at aol.com]

In a message dated 10/19/2004 5:27:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
timexheater at comcast.net writes:

> Just curious if anyone had any good referances for a circuit bending DIY
> type website, preferably for FX pedals, maybe some vintage keyboards etc.
> Thank you very much for your time!

Can't recall the URLs right now, but search for J. Reed Ghazela.  He is 
commonly hailed as the grandfather of circuitbending (though many others have/would 
have figured it out on their own).  There's also a LiveJournal community 
called 'circuitbending' that both Nate and I are on (if you join, I'm autophage 
and nate's xmanhattanx).

But in all seriousness... most of what you'll find is 'figure stuff out on 
your own'.  The only advice other than that is to be careful you don't bend the 
power supply - not only will that probably fry the circuit, it could cause 
burns/pain/death (if it uses a wall supply).  Generally people say not to bend 
anything over 6 volts, but I just do anything battery-powered (well, excluding 
lantern batteries etc) - most things aren't above 9volts, and it's pretty 
difficult to kill yourself with those.

Remember, above all, that the fun doesn't begin until you've started a few 
electrical fires.

       -eric
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