Building a MIDI device is always a great microcontroller project, and nearly everyone has an old toy keyboard lying around in the back of a closet or in the basement. [JenShen] decided to take one … ...

The [Tymkrs] crew has come up with a pretty neat circuit bent toy keyboard hack. It’s been a while since we’ve seen a good circuit bending hack. This project started as a way to demo th… ...

The synth makes some gnarly sounds but the only way to access it for now was through a headphone jack. No longer. littleBits now offers three new modules: MIDI I/O, USB I/O, and CV (control voltage).