Table of Contents
Part I Starting Acknowledgements Forward David Behrman
Introduction
Chapter 1 Getting Started Tools and materials needed
Chapter 2 The Seven Basic Rules of Hacking General advice
Part II Listening
Chapter 3 Circuit Sniffing Using radios and coils to eavesdrop on hidden electromagnetic music
Sidebar #1: Mortal Coils
Chapter 4 In /Out Speaker as microphone, microphone as speaker - the symmetry of it all
Chapter 5 The Celebrated Jumping Speaker of Bowers County Twitching loudspeakers with batteries
Chapter 6 How to Solder An essential skill
Chapter 7 How to Make a Contact Mike Using piezo disks to pick up tiny sounds
Sidebar #2: John Cage - The Father of Invention
Sidebar #3: Piezo Music
Chapter 8 Turn You Tiny Wall Into a Speaker Resonating objects with piezo disks, transformers and motors
Sidebar #4: David Tudor and Rainforest
Sidebar #5: Drivers
Chapter 9 Tape Heads Playing credit cards with hand-held tape heads
Sidebar #6: Tape
Chapter 10 A Simple Air Mike Cheap condenser mike elements make great microphones
Part III Touching
Chapter 11 Laying of Hands Transforming a portable radio into a synthesizer by making your skin part of the circuit
Sidebar #7: The Crackle Box
Chapter 12 Tickle the Clock Finding the clock circuit in toys
Chapter 13 Hack the Clock Changing the clock speed for cool new noises
Sidebar #8: Composing Inside Electronics
Chapter 14 Ohm 's Law for Dummies How to understand resistors
Chapter 15 Beyond the Pot Photocells, pressure pads, and other ways to control and play your toy
Sidebar #9: Circuit Bending
Chapter 16 Switches How to understand different switches, and even make your own
Chapter 17 Jack , Batt & Pack Finishing touches: powering and packaging your hacked toy
Part IV Building
Chapter 18 World 's Simplest Oscillator Six oscillators on a 20-cent chip, guaranteed to work
Chapter 19 From Breadboard to Circuit Board How to solder up your first homemade circuit
Chapter 20 More Oscillators Oscillators that modulate each other
Chapter 21 Even More Oscillators Dividers, feedback loops and instability; using oscillators as clocks for toys
Chapter 22 On /Off Gating, ducking, tremolo and panning
Chapter 23 Amplification and Distortion A simple circuit that goes from clean preamp to total distortion
Chapter 24 Analog to Digital Conversion, Sort of Modulating other audio sources with your oscillators
Part V Looking
Chapter 25 Video Music/Music Video Translating video signals into sound, hacking cheap camera circuits, and extracting sounds from remote controls
Chapter 26 LCD Art Making animated modern daguerreotypes and alternative video projectors
Sidebar #10: Visual Music
Part VI Finishing
Chapter 27 Mixers , Matrices and Processing Very simple, very cheap, very clean mixers, and ways of configuring lots of circuits
Chapter 28 A Little Power Amplifier A cheap & simple amplifier
Chapter 29 Analog to Digital Conversion, Really Connecting sensors to computers using game controllers
Sidebar #11: The Luthiers
Chapter 30 Power Supplies If you must, here's how to plug into the wall with minimal risk
Appendices
Appendix 1 Resources Where to find information and materials
Appendix 2 References and Notes
Appendix 3 Inventory What you need to do the projects in this book
Appendix 4 The Rules of Hacking and the Laws of the Avant Garde A recapitulation
Appendix 5 Notes for the audio CD
Apppendix 6 Illustration Credits