Mister Magisters – Toy Modular

via Pakir:
"Iv been sitting on this pair of Mister Magister for a while now, they are somewhat similar to a swedish talking Speak & Spell. After finding some funny bends i couldnt decide what components to put in it so i decided to make it modular. The tiny patchbays on the front goes to soilderpoints on the card and by putting different components in the patchbay you can get the machine to flip out in all kind of ways. Sometimes its screaming and making little noisebursts and other times it gives you strange ryhtmic melodies, bleeps and bloops. Then if you get tired of all the wackyness you can rip everything out of the patchbay and now it will speak pretty much randomly from its memory. Making strange sentences, poetry. In swedish.

One of the machines has a 8×8 led-matrix connected to the patchbay, you can use it to bend the Magister. When you´ve connected enough cables to it the leds will flicker like any old 70s super computer. =)

The nice thing about them being two is that you can use the extra long cables to bend them against each other. =)

Anyway. its a great little toy. I havnt seen many of them bent. Dont know if people know about them at all.
It would be nice to make a better control surface for it or adding a sequencer but its very much fun the way it is.
Patching at it, making leds flicker in the led-matrix, makes you feel like a mad professor. =)

http://devsound.se/2011/mister-magisters-toy-modular"

Mister Magister - Circuit Bent 1

YouTube Uploaded by salkinitzor on Jul 31, 2011

"A short demo of my bent Mister Magister couple. The patchbays on the front goes to solderpoints on the circuitboard. Patching around with different components & wires is true exploration.
You can use the longer patch cables to connect them to each other to make funny bleepy interactions.
It speaks swedish. =)"

Mister Magister - Circuit Bent 2