Circuit-Bent Instrument · One-off
Starjammer
A Toys "R" Us Dream Dazzlers toy guitar torn open and rebuilt into a playable noise machine. It still rips through notes, riffs, and its built-in tunes and has a working whammy bar — but now there's a voltage starve, an echo with depth and feedback, a real line out, and custom pink LEDs glowing throughout.
- 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
⚠ Fine print from the void tap to expand / collapse
Not guaranteed new, not guaranteed to be any specific anything, and not even guaranteed to be from this universe — it might be cursed. What it definitely is: hand-built, circuit-bent, one-of-a-kind, and straight off my bench. It's worn out its welcome here and it's time it found a new home — imperfections included.
Hand-built and one of a kind — and I stand behind it. Stops working within 30 days → full refund or free repair (I pay shipping back to me); free repairs anytime after that. Full returns & repairs terms »
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.
The bends
| Base instrument | Toys "R" Us Dream Dazzlers toy guitar |
|---|---|
| Added bends | Voltage starve; echo with depth & feedback controls |
| Output | Internal speaker removed, line-out jack added — runs into an amp, pedals, or interface |
| Lighting | Custom pink LEDs added throughout |
| Finish | Pink-and-purple stars with candy decorations |
| Power | Battery-powered (original toy electronics) |
| Build | Circuit-bent, wired, and finished by Onion Madder — fully one of a kind |
Base instrument: Toys "R" Us Dream Dazzlers toy guitar (named for identification only). All circuit-bending, modification, wiring, and finish by Onion Madder.