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Contents
- Foreword to First Edition (David Behrman)
- Introduction
- PART I: STARTING
- 1. Getting Started: Tools and Material Needed
- 2. The Seven Basic Rules of Hacking: General Advice
- PART II: LISTENING
- 3. The Victorian Synthesizer: Twitching Loudspeakers
- 4. In/Out: Speaker as Microphone, Microphone as Speaker, the Symmetry of it All
- 5. How to Solder: an Essential Skill
- 6. Circuit Sniffing: Eavesdropping on Hidden Magnetic Music
- 7. How to Make a Contact Mike: Using Piezo Disks to Pick up Tiny Sounds
- 8. Turn Your Wall into a Speaker: Resonating Objects with Transducers, Motors and More
- 9. Paper Speakers (Jess Rowland)
- 10. Tape Heads: Play Your Credit
- 11. Electret Microphones: Binaural on a Budget
- 12. Laying of Hands: transforming a Radio into a Synthesizer by Making Your Skin Part of the Circuit
- PART III: BUILDING
- 13. My First Oscillator (TM): Six Oscillators on a Chip, Guaranteed to Work
- 14. Solder Up! From Breadboard to Circuit Board
- 15. Getting Messy: Modulation, Feedback, Instability and Crickets
- 16. Soft Circuitry: An Introduction to E-Textile Interfaces (Lara and Sarah Grant)
- 17. On/Off (More Fun With Photo Resistors): Gating, Tremolo, Panning and More
- 18. Mixers and Matrices: Very Simple, Very Cheap, Very Clean Ways of Configuring Lots of Circuits
- 19. Boost and Distort: A Simple Circuit that Goes from Clean Preamp to Total Distortion
- 20. Analog to Digital Conversion, Sort of: Modulating Other Audio with Your Circuits, Pitch Tracking, and a Sequencer
- 21. Beyond Bending: Triggering, Sequencing and Modulating Circuit Bent Toys (Alex Inglizian)
- 22. Video Hacking (LoVid (Tali Hinkis, Kyle Lapidus) and Jon Satrom)
- 23. An Introduction to Op Amps
- 24. A Little Hacker's Amp
- 25. The Mumma-Tudor Ring Modulator (Michael Johnsen and You Nakai)
- 26. Paper Circuits (Peter Blasser)
- 27. Rule the Airwaves: Build a Radio Transmitter (Brett Balogh)
- 28. A Grab Bag of Samples: A Voltage Controlled Radio Receiver (Holger Heckeroth)
- 29. A Lo-Fi Sampler and Looper (Holger Heckeroth)
- 30. The Bissell Function Block: A Lag Processor (Peter Speer)
- 31. Sounds from Neural Networks (Wolfgang Spahn)
- PART IV: COMPUTING
- 32. Sharing Traces: Designing and Fabricating Your Own Printed Circuit Boards with Fritzing (Eduardo Rosario)
- 33. Microcontroller Sound (Joseph Kramer)
- 34. Small Sound: Pure Data on the Raspberry Pi (Robb Drinkwater)
- 35. Data Hacking: The Foundations of Glitch Art (Nick Briz)
- PART V: CONNECTING
- 36. Handmade Sound Communities (Lisa Kori and David Novak)
- 37. Hello World!
- COMPANION WEBSITE CONTENTS
- 1. Project Support
- Sharing Traces -- Designing and Fabricating Your Own Printed Circuit Boards (Eduardo Rosario)
- Microcontroller Sound (Joseph Kramer): Data files and additional projects for chapter 33
- Paper Circuits (Peter Blasser): Circuit board artwork for Rungling circuit in chapter 26
- Sounds from Neural Networks (Wolfgang Spahn): Circuit board artwork for Confetti Neuron circuit in chapter 31
- 2. Technical Bootcamp
- Ohm's Law for Dummies: How to Understand Resistors
- Switches: How to Understand Different Switches, and Make Your Own
- Jack, Batt and Pack: Powering and Packaging Your Circuits
- Power Supplies: Carbon Footprints from AA to EEE
- 3. Circuit Bending
- Tickle the Clock: Finding the Clock Circuit in Toys
- Hack the Clock: Changing the Clock Speed for Cool New Noises
- Video Music/Music Video: Translating Video Signals into Sound, Hacking Cameras, and Extracting Sounds from Remote Controls
- Beyond the Pot: Photoresistors, Pressure Pads and Other Ways to Play Your Toy
- LCD Art: Making Animated Modern Daguerreotypes and Alternate Video Projectors
- 4. Culture and History
- Do It With Others: Hardware Hacking in South America (Florencia Curci, Alma Laprida and Sebastian Rey)
- Hacer con Otrxs: Hardware Hacking en Sudamerica (Florencia Curci, Alma Laprida and Sebastian Rey) (Original Spanish version of Do It With Others)
- Bleep Listening (Ezra Teboul)
- A History of Japanese Hacking and DIY Music (ADACHI Tomomi)
- DIY ( )(Original Japanese version of A History of Japanese Hacking and DIY Music) (ADACHI Tomomi)
- Livening Things Up: Australian Hand-Built Electronic Instruments (Caleb Kelly and Pia van Gelder)
- Gambioluthiery: Hacking and DIY in Brazil (Giuliano Obici)
- A Brief Personal History of dorkbot-nyc (Douglas Repetto)
- The Contact Microphone: A Cultural Object (Daniela Fantechi)
- David Tudor (You Nakai and Michael Johnsen)
- Pixel Artists (LoVid and Jon Satrom)
- Circuit Board as Design (Eduardo Rosario)
- Circuit Bending (Nicolas Collins)
- Visual Music (Nicolas Collins)
- The Future Was Then (Nicolas Collins)
- 5. Tutorials
- 6. Gallery of Artist's Work