Hacking
• Handmade Electronic Music: The Art of Hardware Hacking by Nicolas Collins

Building Effects
• Electronic Projects for Musicians by Craig Anderton

Building Acoustic Instruments
• Musical Instrument Design: Practical Information for Instrument Making by Bart Hopkin

IC “Cookbooks�
• Cmos Cookbook by Donald E. Lancaster
• Op Amp Applications Handbook by Walter G. Jung
• IC Op-Amp Cookbook by Walter G. Jung (get 1st or 2nd edition)
• Audio IC Op-Amp Applications by Walter G. Jung (currently out of print)
• Active Filter Cookbook by Donald E. Lancaster
• Analog Circuits Cookbook by Ian Hickman

Electronics
• The Art of Electronics by Paul Horowitz

Websites:

Circuit-Bending
• Reed Ghazala’s Anti-Theory Workshop
• Warranty Void
• casperelectronics.com
• Circuit Benders

DIY Synths and Effects
• Music From Outer Space
• TonepadFX
• Synths 'R' Us
• Experimentalists Anonymous

Hacking, Junk Building and other DIY Circuits
• Electronic Peasant
• Experimentalists Anonymous
• Junk Dojo
• Narbotic

Instrument Building/Sound Sculpture
• oddmusic.com
(see also Junk Dojo)

DIY Forums
• electro-music.com
• Experimentalists Anonymous
• NoiseGuide

DIY Artists and Groups

Circuit-Benders
• Wolf Eyes
• Beatrix Jar
• Mystermy Circuits by Mike Walters
(see also casperelectronics.com)

Hackers
• Sachiko M & Toshimaru Nakamura
• Yasunao Tone
• Hacked Gadgets
• Chris Baker

Instrument Builders, Sound Sculptors and Kinetic Sculptors
• more Wolf Eyes
• Lemurbots
• Theo Jansen
• Jack F.X. Pavlik
• Schuyler Tsuda

Cause and Effect Contraption Builders
• Peter Fischli and David Weiss - The Way Things Go
• Honda Accord Commercial
• Japanese Rube Goldberg Contest
• Rube Goldberg

DIY Synth and Effects Builders
• Jürgen Haible
• Andrew F
• SDIY.org

Circuit Sculptors
• Phil Stearns
• Peter Vogel

Parts and Supplies:

Local (Twin Cities, MN)
• Ax-Man University and Snelling
• RadioShack University and Snelling
• Home Depot Johnson St. NE, after Broadway, in the Quarry
• Goodwill University and Fairview

Online
• Jameco
• All Electronics
• DigiKey
• Ebay