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Foreword / David Behrman -- Pt. 1. Starting. Getting Started: Tools And Materials Needed -- The Seven Basic Rules Of Hacking: General Advice. Pt. 2. Listening. Circuit Sniffing: Eavesdropping On Hidden Electromagnetic Music (art & Music 1, Mortal Coils) -- In/out: Speaker As Microphone, Microphone As Speaker; The Symmetry Of It All -- The Celebrated Jumping Speaker Of Bowers County: Twitching Loudspeakers With Batteries -- How To Solder: An Essential Skill -- How To Make A Contact Mike: Using Piezo Disks To Pick Up Tiny Sounds (art & Music 2, John Cage--the Father Of Invention; Art & Music 3, Piezo Music) -- Turn You Tiny Wall Into A Speaker: Resonating Objects With Piezo Disks, Transformers, Motors, And More (art & Music 4, David Tudor And Rainforest; Art & Music 5, Drivers) -- Tape Heads: Playing Your Credit Cards (art & Music 6, Tape) -- A Simple Air Mike: Cheap Condenser Mike Elements Make Great Microphones. Pt. 3. Touching. Laying Of Hands: Transforming A Portable Radio Into A Synthesizer By Making Your Skin Part Of The Circuit (art & Music 7, The Cracklebox) -- Tickle The Clock: Finding The Clock Circuit In Toys -- Hack The Clock: Changing The Clock Speed For Cool New Noises -- Ohm's Law For Dummies: How To Understand Resistors (art & Music 8, Composing Inside Electronics) -- Beyond The Pot: Photocells, Pressure Pads, And Other Ways To Control And Play Your Toy Art & Music 9, Circuit Bending) -- Switches: How To Understand Different Switches, And Even Make Your Own -- Jack, Batt, And Pack: Powering And Packaging Your Hacked Toy. Pt. 4. Building. The World's Simplest Circuit: Six Oscillators On A Chip, Guaranteed To Work -- From Breadboard To Circuit Board: How To Solder Up Your First Circuit -- Getting Messy: Oscillators That Modulate Each Other, Feedback Loops, Theremins, Tone Controls, Instability, Clocks For Toys, Crickets -- On/off (more Fun With Photoresistors): Gating, Ducking, Tremolo, And Panning -- Amplification And Distortion: A Simple Circuit That G