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