Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking

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