Circuit Bending, But Make It MIDI

Circuit bending—the art of rewiring toy circuits to create bizarre sounds—has a new tool. Hackaday reports on MIDI TO RESISTANCE, a device from maker Simon the Magpie that bridges MIDI keyboards with circuit-bent instruments. It sits between your bent connections and uses a digital potentiometer to translate keyboard input into variable resistance, letting you bend pitches precisely from your keyboard instead of relying on random connections. In demonstrations on pitch-bent toys, the setup sounds genuinely musical—bringing your wildest circuit experiments under actual control.

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