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strobic

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Newbie circuit bending Letterland Musical Alphabet
« on: July 03, 2007, 11:11:31 PM »

Hi,

Sorry new to circuit bending  ::)

Just starting out on a Letterland toy, i've included a 470ohm potentiometer which bends the clock speed / pitch to slow the samples and music down. I've prodded around for anything else and I can't seem to get anything else out. Any tips? I would like to get some glitches of some sort but not getting anywhere. What parts am I best to use for this? I've so far got the 470 pots but they are not doing much else.

Thanks,
Dan
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Re: Newbie circuit bending Letterland Musical Alphabet
« Reply #1 on: July 03, 2007, 11:17:11 PM »

If its the one with 'naughty nick' and 'munching mike' etc then thats about all you can do with it apart from adding a line out
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Re: Newbie circuit bending Letterland Musical Alphabet
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2007, 09:45:17 AM »

Yeah that's the one, I checked out the sounds section on the site and there are some pretty freaky effects on this one. Know how to do this?
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Re: Newbie circuit bending Letterland Musical Alphabet
« Reply #3 on: July 04, 2007, 05:38:07 PM »

most of those effects can be done just using the pitch control although there appears to be some kind of crash button on that one as well. Unfortunately i have no recollection of how its installed, it might just connect across the pitch connections to give a quick moment of zero resistance when you press it,

or maybe not..........
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Re: Newbie circuit bending Letterland Musical Alphabet
« Reply #4 on: July 04, 2007, 07:22:10 PM »

Thanks :) i'm looking into the crash button.. just don't know what it is. Any preference on what crash button I need to do the job?
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