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The Starjammer photographed front on: a bright pink toy guitar with a cream and purple fretboard dotted with teal position markers, its body covered in a collage of candy and food stickers, a teal treble clef, rows of small teal buttons and a silver rocker, with Starjammer hand-lettered along the lower edge.

Circuit-Bent Instrument · One-off

Starjammer

Circuit-Bent Toy Guitar Available · 1 of 1

This started as a Dream Dazzlers toy guitar from Toys R Us. I pulled the speaker for a line-out jack, added a voltage-starve knob and an echo (depth and feedback), and put pink LEDs in every hole I could drill. The touch-strings still work, the buttons still fire off riffs and its built-in tunes, and the whammy bar still warbles - only now it does all of it through your rig. It's a noise machine that thinks it's a guitar.

  • TypeCircuit-bent toy guitar
  • BaseToys "R" Us Dream Dazzlers
  • BendsVoltage starve · Echo (depth + feedback)
  • OutputLine out added (speaker removed)
  • LightingCustom pink LEDs throughout
  • StatusAvailable - one of a kind
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What it does

Starjammer started life as a battery-powered Dream Dazzlers toy guitar - real, touch-responsive strings that play its riffs when you brush them, buttons that trigger notes and built-in tunes, and a whammy bar. All of that still works. What's new is everything wired in around it: this is a circuit-bent instrument, so the fun is in pushing the toy's little sound chip past what it was ever meant to do.

The voltage starve browns out the circuit on demand for dying-battery pitch drops, stutters, and glitchy lock-ups. The added echo - with its own depth and feedback controls - smears everything into repeats that you can push all the way into runaway self-oscillation. Brush the touch-responsive strings to fire off the riffs, ride the whammy bar to warble the pitch, and the bends chew all of it into glitch. And because the internal speaker is gone in favor of a proper line out, you can run all of it straight into an amp, a pedal chain, or your interface.

Demo

Demo filmed by Onion Madder on the actual unit.

Controls & play

Strings
Real, touch-responsive strings - brush them to play the guitar's built-in riffs.
Buttons
Trigger individual notes and the built-in tunes.
Whammy bar
Bends and warbles the pitch of whatever the toy is playing.
Voltage Starve
Chokes the supply voltage for dying-battery drops, stutters, and unstable, glitchy lock-ups.
Echo - Depth
Sets how much echo is mixed in and how far it spreads out.
Echo - Feedback
Number of repeats - from a slap-back tail up into infinite, self-oscillating runaway.

Base instrument: Toys "R" Us Dream Dazzlers toy guitar (named for identification only). All circuit-bending, modification, wiring, and finish by Onion Madder.