Kids are not interested in stuff without QWERTY keyboards nowadays. They want toy laptops, which come in various shapes and sizes. These new educational devices seem to me like an untapped circuit bending and modding territory. Some are pretty complicated and even have programming languages like BASIC built in. I guess the main prohibiting point is the cost, however I am sure second hand these get pretty cheap. Because these are CPU based they would most likely just crash during the conventional poking, instead reprogramming these devices may be the way to go. [via Benders list]
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Kids are not interested in stuff without QWERTY keyboards nowadays. They want toy laptops, which come in various shapes and sizes. These new educational devices seem to me like an untapped circuit bending and modding territory. Some are pretty complicated and even have programming languages like BASIC built in. I guess the main prohibiting point is the cost, however I am sure second hand these get pretty cheap. Because these are CPU based they would most likely just crash during the conventional poking, instead reprogramming these devices may be the way to go. [via Benders list]
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At 3/29/2006 10:38:01 PM, sailormouth said…
One point to consider is the effect the lcd display has on the over all functioning of the circuit. There is a limitation to pitch up range do to the part of the circuitry which "controls" the display. To create an image on the screen a single pixel is created at a time. Each pixel of the image is created individually, but they are created so quickly that the eye perceives the entire image. All in all you push the pitch up and laptop will crash before giving a tonal change. I have noticed the increased "spacing" of beeps for tunes without pitch up in vocals.
Pitch down will work. It stretches out vocals instead of lowering the pitch, and there is an increased "spacing" of tunes. Pitch down will also glitch the lcd display.
Not trying to discourage anyone poking around, just wanted to share.
Also to do pitch stuff you'll need to remove some components and build an adjustable oscillator.
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