Glitching Speak & Spell without cracking it open

"I'm gonna show you how to make a Speak & Spell glitch without circuit bending. ... so you can record it going nuts."

The surreal part is that it's a British Speak and Spell, completely baffling even to the British.

Video [Stenophonic via MatrixSynth and Make]

[#1 posted by Knife Knut , July 28, 2008 4:32 PM]

It is channeling R2-D2!

[#2 posted by Chris Brewer , July 28, 2008 5:59 PM]

"This is Donny, and you suck at Speak & Spell"

[#3 posted by Waterlilygirl , July 28, 2008 10:19 PM]

And the point to all of this is... what?

[#4 posted by Not a Doktor , July 28, 2008 10:27 PM]

I remember we had some type of speak & spell (it had a tan case), but when you hit the divide key for math it said something in a hilarious way. I'm kinda sad now because visually the memory is very vivid, but I can't remember the audio.

Also we didn't play with it much because it was pretty damn loud and mom would get irritated (and I found the noise grating).

[#5 posted by Mike , July 29, 2008 12:45 AM]

#3 - check out the modified toy orchestra ( http://www.myspace.com/toyorch ). Might not be your bag musically, but every sound they make comes from (erm) modified toys.....

They ruled when I saw them live a couple of years ago

[#6 posted by Nollie , July 29, 2008 6:57 AM]

#4 - I had the math one too! I wish i could remember what it was called. I totally remember the weird divide key sound, my sister and i could never figure out what it was saying. It's a sort of vague sound in my memory too - something like: robot sound, robot sound - "little lens"?? Is that it, damn i can't remember, this is going to drive me nuts all day...

[#7 posted by Nollie , July 29, 2008 9:42 AM]

I found the math one...aaaahhh nostalgia is so sweet!

http://www.99er.net/spkmath.html

[#8 posted by rosyatrandom , July 30, 2008 6:28 AM]

He gets to the point fast.

[#9 posted by KongK , July 31, 2008 12:15 PM]

He sounds like Bright Eyes...