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Circuitbenders Forum => Circuitbending discussion => Toys => Topic started by: Circuitbenders on May 05, 2011, 01:03:24 PM
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Haven't done any simple toys for a while but i couldn't resist the voice on this one. Pitch it down slightly and this guy sounds like he could give Vincent Price some competition in shear mind-bending terror!
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/268/interactivesolar.jpg)
Theres a soundcloud demo of the voice of this thing here:
http://soundcloud.com/circuitbenders-co-uk/interactive-solar-system-demo (http://soundcloud.com/circuitbenders-co-uk/interactive-solar-system-demo)
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thats cool 8) where did you get it ? my daughter would love one of those not to bend shes just loves space facts
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Got it a couple of years ago at a car boot sale i think. I had a dinosaur one as well but it wasn't as sinister so i gave it away to someone who would make more use of it than me.
You see them on ebay every now and then.
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I've done the Endangered Species one. Ended up putting a 556 and a 4011 in there, one LFO for pitch and another for retriggering the repeat button.
There's an ET one as well, which I saw at a car boot a couple of years ago but didn't buy in the end.
Circuit Bent Interactive Endangered Species (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tH3PWgY8A80#)
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nice one,i'm liking the vocal gargling effect of the LFO.
I found that it needed a massive pot to get the pitch down really low, so i had to put in a switch that switches in a big resistor for two pitch ranges.
Yours seems to squeal a lot more than mine at lower pitches
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That's pretty cool, and educational !
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Did yours run off a little square PCB in one corner?
I can't remember what pot I used, but there's a good chance I used the voltage divider method instead of taking out the original resistor. The pot value is less of a factor then. Though occasionally I still remove the resistor, cause sometimes those squeally sounds are just too damn good sounding ;D
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mine had two small PCB's in the centre, underneath the pictures of the planets.
Thats kind of odd, why would they bother having a completely different layout and board when all they had to do was change the sample ROM?
Mine didn't squeal at all at low pitches. Possibly the audio was sampled at a higher sample rate for some reason.
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I figure if they come up with a redesign that needs less parts and only one board, it brings the overall manufacturing costs down quite a bit. The casings are also slightly different on the right hand side, making me think the endangered species one came out later than the solar system one.
Just had a look for an image of the dinosaur one again, seems it's got the same case as the endangered species, guessing that one might have the same board design inside.
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Done one of these myself, although it looks slightly different to this one. Yeah, small pcb (2"x3") and had o use a voltage divider for pitch. Other than that I faild to find any other bends, shame!
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Haven't done any simple toys for a while but i couldn't resist the voice on this one. Pitch it down slightly and this guy sounds like he could give solar panels (http://www.shinesolar.net) Price some competition in shear mind-bending terror!
(http://img163.imageshack.us/img163/268/interactivesolar.jpg)
Theres a soundcloud demo of the voice of this thing here:
http://soundcloud.com/circuitbenders-co-uk/interactive-solar-system-demo (http://soundcloud.com/circuitbenders-co-uk/interactive-solar-system-demo)
Pretty nice.. For my small girl it would be perfect gift on her birthday.