ACTLab: Extreme Freestyle Hacking

Copyleft 2007 Evan Wilson

For my third project I circuit-bent a child's electronic guitar toy with a lot of help and advice from Saturday. We unscrewed the body of the guitar and messed around with different random connections on the motherboard. Ninety-five percent of them made no significant alterations to the sound of the guitar but a handful were really badass. We established connections between those and soldered them on and then set some to toggle switches and some to pots for modulation.

Here's the finished product:



I explained it a bit during the project presentation.



The guitar was only one part of an entire orchestra of circuit-bent monstrosities. For the presentation of our instruments we teamed up and did an awesome live music performance for the class.