That's why i usually open a can of beer just before i start bending...
And tonight was one of these nights when even the can of beer didn't help.
First i fried one of these "My Music Center"-like toy keyboards merely on FIRST TOUCH (turning the pitch resistor slowly to zero just killed it! Left me speechless for quite a while...)
Then i opened a Casio SA-21 just to find out that there are just 3 (absolutely boring) bends possible, a bitrate-reducer like bend, the well known feedback bend (which makes me yawn just by typing the words here) and the usual crystal crash (which doesn't produce anything other than a silent crash in 4 out of 5 tries!!!). My proposal for the "unbendable machines" list!
The last one was a Kids Drum Toy, an ugly orange/yellow/neon-green plastic monster... There are lots and lots of caps, resistors, transistors and other parts on the PCB but there was not even ONE useful bend! Except the pitch bend for the black blob, ok... but nothing else.
Maybe i should find another hobby.
Maybe i shouldn't have started circuit bending with my DD-11 and my RY30 because these machines where wonderful bending targets.. almost every connection on these big chips produced a cool noise sound and bending them was a lot of fun! After these two machines there were only crap devices like the Casio SA-10 (the same as the mostly useless SA-21 bends or M-200 or PSS-50, you name it...), the boss DR-202 (harsh noise but uncontrollable and much too unpredictable) and lots and lots of toys which didn't do anything except a boring pitch bend...
Maybe i should buy more beer though...