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Bending A Phone
« on: June 18, 2007, 08:46:43 AM »
Does anybody know how do-able this is?

Basically, I want to be able to use it as a mic and/or use the button tones as an instrument. preferably in one unit, but if two phones have to be used, so be it.

But yeah, any ideas?
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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2007, 09:15:51 AM »
maybe nice for the circuitbenders contest ?
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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2007, 10:48:01 AM »
...There's a contest?

I don't often get chance to visit this site, and my circuitbending is occasional at best.

So yeah...


There's a contest?
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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #3 on: June 21, 2007, 02:02:41 PM »
are we talking about a mobile phone here or a normal one?

Theres some information in the links section on connecting a telephone mic to a line level source but what i'd suggest you do it just get one of those boxes that you plug the telephone jack into that are designed for recording telephone conversations.

There might be a contest if we can decide what to have a contest about http://www.circuitbenders.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,383.0.html
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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #4 on: June 22, 2007, 03:33:17 PM »
buttons can be used to control audio  matrix, ie columns and rows. inputs on columns outputs on rows. make feedback connections between cross points. outs to main/auxes/effects/column ins. see nic collins harware hacking book for more on audio matrices. trickier with mobiles because of surface mount/minaturisation.
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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #5 on: June 25, 2007, 09:58:34 AM »
Just your run of the mill, old fashioned touch dial phone.

the sort you can buy for £2.99 from Argos.

I'm also gonna see if I can find the bit of a microwave that makes noises, preferably without blowing myself into tiny little chunks.

Someone, just this second, has walked into the room and given me a Yamaha VSS200.  ;D
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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #6 on: June 25, 2007, 12:37:06 PM »
personally i'd suggest that a microwave might be fairly near the top of my list of stuff not to mess with if you don't happen to be a qualified service engineer. :-\
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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #7 on: June 26, 2007, 11:53:41 AM »
Meh, I'm brave.

However, having looked into just how terrifyingly explosively murderous microwaves are when  fat fingered idiots like me start rummaging round inside them, I'll be leaving them alone.

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Re: Bending A Phone
« Reply #8 on: June 26, 2007, 04:57:27 PM »
if you have fat fingers and you're Dave, you can also count in for the contest !
then you don't need the telephone  8)
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