Come along on a very short but sweet adventure with me as I bend my first circuit, a toy phone.

The digitized sounds in this phone are not great, but it’s a super simple way to get exposed to circuit bending.  If you are interested in this art form, watch the video to see how the story unfolds:

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I had this idea for a growling and screaming altoids tin based on the 555 timer running in astable mode several days ago, and just today while reading Hackaday I see that Dino from Dinofab.com and Hackaweek.com just built it!  I was like, “sonofa…” but then saw he did not implement it quite the way I had planned, so off …..

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