r/CircuitBending

Hi everyone!

I've designed a simple transmitter that uses an SI5351 square wave generator along with this PA and low-pass filter. I'm still a junior, so I'm not sure how it will perform in a real-world environment. I'd really appreciate it if you could take a look.

Any comments or feedback would be greatly appreciated!

Just wanna show my TR505 that I worked with Luke Reddington on back in 2006. It was fun because it was more of a collaboration where I would make suggestions for how I wanted it to work.

It’s cool that he used to sign his work. I’ve been out of the circuit bending game for a long time. Does anyone else have any of his instruments?

I learned how to solder correctly for this.

more time consuming self expression. In shot: iPhone 11, 2 5th gen iPod classics, a 5th gen nano, a 2nd gen iPod touch, and a Samsung s23 ultra.

I haven’t done any circuit bent cassette players yet though I have several that I’ve purchased- this is the one I’m most excited to try but I’m going to save it for last. Great potential with the built in drum pad.

when i bought this, pocahontas didn't have a head, so i put a skull on it instead and transformed it into this dark witchy kind of statue 😛

As promised

Took it on a weekend trip to Chicago. Got a ton of cool videos with it too I’ll put them together sometime

Currently a WIP building this tape delay. Input signal is split - recorded onto tape loop, picked up by tape head and blended back with the dry. However the input signal doesn’t seem to be getting recorded onto the tape, even though using an audio probe I can see that the signal is reaching the record head. Any reason for this ?? There is some recording on the tape but it isn’t being erased either so i’m not sure why the erase head isn’t working.

No screws on this so I’d love to know if anyone else has bent this model of kid camera before I pry this open and potentially break it

Want to know if it's possible to remove/bypass the internal mains transformer on a Vivanco VCR 4044/3044 ect and add a DC power jack to allow it to be powered directly via a 12v DC power supply. The reason why is I've wanted to circuit bend my Vivanco enhancers for over a year now but am way too scared to even look at its internals whilst it's connected directly to mains power, let alone poke and prod around it's circuitry! I've bent around 9 different DC powered video enhancers with no issues and without bricking any of them too so not a complete beginner but still kinda have no clue what I'm doing lmao. I believe I have to solder the positive and negative of the DC barrel jack to the corresponding positive and negative legs of the capacitor labelled as C33 on the schematic which I think is this large capacitor pictured even though it's a 2200uF 25v not a 2200uF 16v (of which there isn't one on the actual unit) but just want to triple check! I've already cut the wires from the AC power and will desolder and remove the step down transformer block too just to get it out of the way. Thanks in advance!

the Picture doesn’t do justice to the beige faded plastic look in contrast with the bottom which is still white. the plastic whitening stuff is expensive and since I’m far from guaranteed to be able to sell this for a high enough price to justify the added cost, I don’t think i can justify it. So painting is an option, but im not sure what color would work with the multi color scheme and the buttons and yellow piano keys.
any color suggestions? Do I just spray paint glossy white?

Hey there! I’ve been a long time bender accumulating damaged electronics and hacking things apart. I’m moving to a new smaller space and wanted to offload some old random storage stuff if anyone wants it. Including some pics of stuff. HEADS UP! Almost everything is broken and was kept for parts or further examination. Some are old abandoned projects, all of it is free. DM me for details if you’re in LA and want to pickup some weird random stuff for FREE!