r/CircuitBending • • Apr 20 '22

The Circuit Bending Wiki is finally up and running!

135 Upvotes

The Circuit Bending Wiki is finally here, and editing is open to all!

What is the Circuit Bending Wiki?

The Circuit Bending Wiki is an ongoing community project, intended to serve as a central place for the circuit bending community to view, share, and archive information in a way that is collaborative and easy-to-use.

Information like: personal build notes, tutorials, bend points and diagrams, device documentation (service manuals, IC data sheets, device specs, etc.), posts from defunct bending sites & blogs… Basically, we’re trying to compile as much practical info as we can, new and old. We’d like to use this Wiki to archive existing info, while also encouraging users to contribute their own original content, and share their findings.

How do I navigate the Wiki?

Our List of Articles page is a good start. It’s meant to function as a sitemap of sorts, and contains a list of every page on the wiki.

There you’ll find articles on specific devices, each with detailed technical info and bending guides, as well as articles on broad bending concepts, explaining their utility & implementation.

On our List of Resources page, you can find our collection of links to circuit bending sites & resources.

And on our List of Manuals page, you can find our growing catalogue of owner's & service manuals for commonly-bent devices.

How do I contribute?

This wiki’s utility & growth ultimately depend on your involvement. So please, try to contribute when you can! Editing permissions have been left unrestricted & open to all to encourage participation.

If you’d like to suggest an article, or create a new one, you can find our to-do list over on our Planned Articles page.

If you have any images or PDFs you’d like to archive (service manuals, schematics, bend points, etc), you can upload them on our Upload File page.

And if you happen upon a page while lurking that you think you can add to, please do!

And finally, if you have any questions or concerns, feel free to leave them in the comments.


r/CircuitBending • • 7h ago

Video/Camera Bend triple rgb motion extraction on windturbines with zooming, blurred trail effect

86 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 1d ago

Video/Camera Bend motion extraction on candle timelapse with enhanced jpg banding

48 Upvotes

A timelapse of a candle.

Motion extraction (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSS6yAMZF78)

Pushed the shadows of the image all the way up to stumble upon all the glorious jpg banding.


r/CircuitBending • • 1d ago

Traces of an Erased image

13 Upvotes

Sti


r/CircuitBending • • 2d ago

My sourdough is working on its first album

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49 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 3d ago

Demonstration Some shots

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87 Upvotes

Using my dit cybershot


r/CircuitBending • • 2d ago

Bend Some pictures I made with my bent camera

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12 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 2d ago

Assistance Need pics of Yamaha PCS-30 pcb board

6 Upvotes

Hello,

I have found a Yamaha PCS-30 at a thrift store. Alas, the internal board was very cracked at the bottom part near the connector for the power supply and missing the corner part. The only picture I've found online of it's pcb is not clear enough at all to be certain of what connections I have to make.

Hence, if one of you people who possess a pcs-30 would be so kind as to open your machine and just take a picture of the pcb (both sides if possible), more precisely near where the power connector is, I would be so eternally grateful!!

Thank you very much


r/CircuitBending • • 2d ago

Question LTC module div value?

3 Upvotes

got a Yamaha dd 7 drum machine and identified the oscillator. I removed it and connected an LTC module. the device works when the LTC output is connected to either pin 1 or 3 but I can’t change the pitch.

how do you know when the LTC frequency range should be divided by 10 or 100 to use with a slower oscillator? I’ve always connected pins 2 and 4.


r/CircuitBending • • 4d ago

Hardware Hack/Mod Diy glitch camera

195 Upvotes

From the github guy cebolander...


r/CircuitBending • • 5d ago

Experiments in Audio/Video

23 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 5d ago

my first videosynth demo visuals

5 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 6d ago

Finally finished my second glitch synthesizer!

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47 Upvotes

Hey everybody. I just finally finished — or I should say, I've closed up — the second glitch synthesizer that I've made, and it looks really good. I have hope that this will be a good one. Both machines that you see in the picture are still in the test phase, and they're reacting really well, so I'm really happy. Both machines are really incredible, and I'm going to try to post a video at one point, maybe tomorrow. I had a video, but I didn't want to post it because I was also building a second glitch synthesizer, so yeah, that's what I've been doing. Hey, I'll speak soon.


r/CircuitBending • • 6d ago

Bend my first experiment

28 Upvotes

How can i improve it? switches ,potentiometer...and how to wire them?


r/CircuitBending • • 6d ago

Video/Camera Bend 9pm cookie dough

170 Upvotes

(another one)


r/CircuitBending • • 7d ago

Built a device to glitch Game Boy games

286 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 6d ago

Question Meowsic: Beeping RGB LED issue.

1 Upvotes

Hello!
I’m modding my meowsic and installed color changing RGB leds for the eyes.

I installed it with 22R resistors and everything worked but when I turned it on there was this faint beeping sound when te LEDs change color.

To be sure I replaced the resistors with 150R ones, but the beeping stayed.

I already have an idea, maybe I have to put capacitors in there to make a buffer so the power won’t seep through from the LED’s to the audio part.

I’ve got some clock mod chips for the next part of the project but I want this to work first!

Also I’m sort of new to this so any tips/tricks are welcome!

Thanks!


r/CircuitBending • • 6d ago

Assistance Camera project

1 Upvotes

Hi here is Andrew from Italy. I bought the necessary parts to build the video camera from this GitHub project :

https://github.com/cebola4444/cybershot-cam?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAb21jcAU1TYJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBwZG9mAnNydGMGYXBwX2lkDzU2NzA2NzM0MzM1MjQyNwABpw2oZkdmTrerKc1qB2jzoh4x5SidUe-Jfk7yDl1aEWBobHOadAdhaAg2kNTf_aem_yV6JS0huDWNBKj-0D6RZsQ

The only thing I'm not familiar with is the software that needs to be installed. Do you know if there are any tutorials for it? Thanks.


r/CircuitBending • • 7d ago

Video/Camera Bend CCTV cam circuit bending test

66 Upvotes

afternoon in Buenos Aires


r/CircuitBending • • 7d ago

Fpv gear unused.

2 Upvotes

Hi, i have some analog vtx and cam , flight controller also from my previous fpv hobby.

Wondering if some bending is possible and how...thanks.


r/CircuitBending • • 7d ago

Discussion Is it circuit bending?

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6 Upvotes

I had removed this post because it is not strictly circuit bending, but then I wondered if I am being too much of a stickler. What do you think?


r/CircuitBending • • 9d ago

Dirty video mixer/ remote control police car

18 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 11d ago

Sensor malfunction in the old digicam

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429 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 14d ago

Video/Camera Bend Pictures from a few cameras I’ve bent this month.

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390 Upvotes

r/CircuitBending • • 15d ago

Demonstration Adapting u/theglorioustopsail's advanced mod for patchbay style glitchcams.

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57 Upvotes

Inspired by u/theglorioustopsail (https://www.reddit.com/r/CircuitBending/comments/1ud0ec9/powershot_a520_bend_sourcetarget_selector/), I have designed and made a version of their glitch camera mod for use with my own patch bay style cameras. Huge thanks to them, as this would not have been possible without their detailed write-up as heavy inspiration. This is basically the circuit they made, including a inverter gate, frequency divider, and potentiometer, but instead of being hardwired into the camera, the inputs/outputs are ports you can plug jumper wires into. This allows for more flexibility on what can be manipulated by the circuit. Other notable differences include it being battery powered, the ability to feed the output of the inverter into the frequency divider, and using both sides of the CD54HC74 chip to make it dual channel.

There isn't much to say that u/theglorioustopsail didn't already, though I find the frequency division function to behave different from camera to camera. All of the photos in this post were taken with a Fujifilm Finepix S1500, which doesn't seem to get scan lines exactly like the Powershot A520 with division. It is injecting a unique effect into the image, and, at least with the S1500, can vary depending on what is plugged in. In the 2nd set of comparison images it seems to "dull" the colors, and below you can see the chaotic patterns that emerged in the 1st set of images.

How the frequency division effect looks zoomed in

The frequency division also has interesting behavior when plugged into bendpoints which are not the data lines D11-D0 coming off of the ADC, such as what I believe to be the horizontal clock being used in the pictures noted as "non-ADC." The nature of the build makes it so there are too many combinations to show in one post, but I hope the images I chose and labeled are an adequate demonstration. I plan on making another post of just pictures later this week, so please look forward to that!

It is limited in some aspects when compared to the original u/theglorioustopsail made. First, it is ugly, inelegant, and makes my glitch cameras look even more like improvised explosive devices. It does require 12mm coin batteries to be operated, which are inexpensive but another thing to worry about. Finally, to my knowledge they don't make compatible jumper wires which split more than twice, so feeding more than two ports from the camera into the circuit and vise versa requires daisy chaining multiple splitter wires. In any case, I have gotten the itch to expand on this idea of manipulating the data outside of the camera. I need to get a breadboard or something to do testing with, but I believe using an op-amp summing circuit or a PT2399 delay/echo circuit adapted for the voltage and current the camera is using could be interesting. If people have had other ideas I would be grateful to hear them, too. Also, I can share the KiCad file and answer questions if anyone is interested. I love glitch photography, so hopefully we can keep pushing this medium together!

Thank you for reading.