All The Bees Are Dead: Bendinator 2.1 - Circuit Bent Toy Keyboard

Before starting this post, I'd like to point out I almost lost my mind bending this keyboard. Even though I had done one before, this time it was fraught with problems. The circuit board was also different from the first one, which led to some issues. At one point when tired I though I had destroyed the whole thing, but it turned out the batteries had just gone flat.

Since doing this I also no longer solder late at night when tired as I just end up making stupid mistakes, but sometimes its like an addiction and I can't walk away from an open case!

The Bendinator 2.1 is another Boots Karaoke Toy Keyboard, based on what I did with the Bendinator 2 which turned out well. The 2.1 has some differences in bends though :

No Glitch control

Added LFO Socket and switch for Pitch control

Added LFO Socket and switch/pot for Blip control (a repeating effect)

No Speaker Kill switch

It still has :

Reset Button

Doom Setting

Octave Down Setting

Pitch Control

Distortion

Output Socket

LED Blue Inner Lights

The addition of the LFO sockets works really well and I can get some crazy sounds, I will be posting a video soon, and hopefully some finished tracks using the keyboard.

Here are some pictures at different angles, not sure the black paint job is as good as the grey, but i only had enough grey to spray the buttons, so the body had to be black. It reminds me a bit of a 70s Dalek!