Circuit Bent (Speak & SpeLLM)

The term "circuit bending" refers to the creative customization of the circuits within electronic devices.  A common target for this is the Texas Instruments Speak & Spell because its rudimentary text-to-speech circuits can be distorted and twisted to very interesting effect.  In this piece, I imagine a retro-future circuit-bent Speak & Spell integrated with an LLM voiced by Max Headroom.  The device features a brain-computer interface cable and is fully networked.  A perfect device for young hackers or phreakers who haven't yet graduated to the Ono-Sendai Cyberspace VII deck.
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20" x 24" x 5"
Laser cut acrylic, 6 color print, 8” IPS screen, Micro MP4 player
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