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	<description>Guides to electronics from a bent perspective.</description>
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		<title>Drum Triggers (Piezo Sensors)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In electronic drums, including those used by music videogames like Rock Band or Guitar Hero: World Tour, drum hits are registered via a piezo sensor.
Piezoelectric sensors are crystals sandwiched between two metal disks.  When the crystal is deformed (e.g. struck), it produces a small amount of electricity.  With an amplification circuit (such as [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2010/05/12/drum-triggers-piezo-sensors</link>
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		<title>Quick music sample</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve only gotten 3 bends fully wired up on the PSS-460, because I&#8217;ve been having too much fun playing it.
The bends so far are two distortion bends that also tend to have input on other bends when they&#8217;re turned on.
The third bend is one of a group of bends that together make up what I&#8217;ve [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2008/05/12/quick-music-sample</link>
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		<title>Bending a PSS-460:  Wiring up a breadboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In part 2 I examined some bend points.  There were so many good ones on the sound chip, I&#8217;ll spend some time connecting the chip to an external breadboard to make adding more bends easier.



Preparing a ribbon cable







In the past, I&#8217;ve done several bends where each bend gets a wire to the pin.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2008/05/08/bending-a-pss-460-wiring-up-a-breadboard</link>
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		<title>Bending a PSS-460: Finding bends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In part 1, I opened the Yamaha PSS-460, gained access to the main board and identified some chips and safe areas of the board. 
In this entry, I&#8217;ll be outlining how to find bends, both of the simple short variety and the resisted short variety.



Finding Bends






Traditionally, bends have been found by using a pair of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2008/04/27/bending-a-pss-460-finding-bends</link>
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		<title>Bending a PSS-460: The internals of the keyboard</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I obtained a Yamaha PSS-460 on ebay a few months ago, and am starting a series of posts as I bend it.  

The PSS-460 is a good example of an 80&#8217;s keyboard.  It has a separate CPU and sound synth chip, has a drum synth and a headphone jack.  It can be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2008/04/25/bending-a-pss-460</link>
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		<title>Update &#8211; Bendable devices pages</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Getting started on a new project, the result of spending too much time at Goodwill, staring at keyboards and wondering if they&#8217;re worth buying.  I&#8217;m trying to collect a list of devices that are bendable, starting with keyboards.  I&#8217;m sticking mostly to the 80s-era keyboards, like the casio sks and yamaha psses, though [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2007/05/07/update-bendable-devices-pages</link>
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		<title>Upcoming articles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I know I have more basic electronics articles to write, but I have other things in the docket at the moment:
- What&#8217;s in a black blob?  I&#8217;ll be taking apart a black blob device to show, but I&#8217;ll explain what makes it different from the 80s devices beginner circuitbenders love.  (Hint:  it&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2007/01/31/upcoming-articles</link>
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		<title>Circuitbending Video</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Make&#8217;s Bre Pettis and circuit bender Justin Gerardy of Bipolar Productions talk about some basic circuitbending techniques:

From the Makezine.com Weekend Projects Blog.

It&#8217;s cool that a big name like Make is doing circuitbending, but there&#8217;s a little too much tell and not quite enough show.  Of course, I&#8217;m discovering myself how hard it is to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2007/01/23/circuitbending-video</link>
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		<title>Contact Form</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Got a question?  Have an article suggestion?  Want to know more about something?  Let me know.
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		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2006/12/18/contact-form</link>
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		<title>Updates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Added a new circuitbending article on building an Advanced Probe.
I&#8217;ve not actually built one fully &#8211; I actually use a prototype breadboard and temporarily solder leads directly on to the PCB. This works great if you can look at a board and know where the V5+ and GND pins are by their location or pin [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.circuitlocution.com/2006/12/13/updates</link>
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