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| Foreword to Second Edition | |
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| Foreword to First Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Starting | |
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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 | |
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| In/Out (the Eighth Rule of Hacking): Speaker as Microphone, Microphone as SpeakerG++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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| The Father of Invention | |
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| Piezo Music | |
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| Turn You Tiny Wall Into a Speaker (or How to Make a Piezo Driver): Resonating Objects with Piezo Disks, Transformers, and Motors | |
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| David Tudor and Rainforest | |
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| Drivers | |
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| Tape Heads: Playing Credit Cards with Hand-Held Tape Heads | |
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| 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 I (St. VitusG++ Dance): Transforming a Portable Radio into a Synthesizer by Making Your Skin Part of the Circuit | |
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| The Cracklebox | |
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| Tickle the Clock (Laying of Hands II): Finding the Clock Circuit in Toys | |
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| Hack the Clock (Learn a New Alphabet): Changing the Clock Speed for Cool New Noises | |
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| OhmG++s Law for Dummies: How to Understand Resistors | |
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| Composing Inside Electronics | |
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| Beyond the Pot: Photocells, Pressure Pads, and Other Ways to Control and Play Your Toy | |
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| Circuit Bending | |
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| Switches: How to Understand Different Switches, and Even Make Your Own | |
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| Jack, Batt, and Pack: Finishing Touches: Powering and Packaging Your Hacked Toy | |
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| Building | |
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| WorldG++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 | |
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| 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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| Envelope Follower: Noise Gate, Ducker, Keyer, Compressor, Modulating Oscillator | |
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| Phase Locked Loops: Pitch Tracking & Transposition, Odd Outputs | |
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| Sequencer: Driving PLL Oscillator, Gating Signals | |
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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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| Visual Music | |
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| LCD Art: Making Animated Modern Daguerreotypes and Alternative Vid<$$$> | |