In this video I show how I circuit bent a Staples easy button. I added a momentary push button that stutters the sound and a pitch knob that slows down and speeds up the sound.
Wow Mike, you are on fire with interesting NEW content. Keep up the good work. Perhaps this national health crises will free up some time to solder down in the workshop.
I think that this channel has a really good basis for success. I think that circuit bending can make extremely interesting content, but this type of thing can be difficult to follow for people who are lacking in knowledge about this kind of thing. Perhaps you could make the content more engaging by taking the viewer through the entire process and by giving a more in depth introduction. I hope to see this channel grow!
Mad Muffintops Thank you very much! I’ve been thinking about trying to do some basic “how to circuit bend” videos like that. I’ll give it a try. Just gotta find time now 😜
So my uneducated guess is that we have an op-amp taking a reference frequency and mixing it with encoded output from a microcontroller. The reference frequency, a.k.a "pitch" here, is either already a square wave or the microcontroller makes it into one and uses it as a clock. This would explain the illusion of a pitch drop and the delay as the signal frequency increases - the logic circuitry can't keep up with the clock after a certain threshold and may even be resetting. I would really love to see/do a version of this bent permanently past the threshold with finer frequency control to glean more unique artifacts.
