Circuit bending is the art of creatively short circuiting low voltage hardware to create interesting and unexpected results. It’s generally applied to things like Furbys, old Casio keyboards, or early ...

The Casio SK-1 keyboard is fairly well-known in the “circuit bending” scene, where its simple internals lend themselves to modifications and tweaks to adjust the device’s output in all sorts of ...

The Fifth Annual Bent Festival is being held in three cities, LA, NY, and Minn, in late April/early May (depending upon location): The Bent Festival is an annual art and music festival celebrating DIY ...

NEW YORK --Ready to make some music? Pry open a Gameboy, tinker with its electronic guts, plug the re-engineered result into a Speak & Spell, duct tape it all together, sprinkle liberally with glitter ...

For the third episode of The Future of Music, I’m in Margate, England, standing in front of 44 Furbies that have been hacked and wired together to create a giant, playable organ. You might have seen ...

The 2019 Circuit Benders’ Ball will bring a slew of hardware-hacking artists to Little Harpeth Brewing Aug. 24-25. You can help make it happen — and get some cool stuff for yourself in the bargain — ...