Nicolas Collins, composer designed a course to show his students some electronic alternatives to the computer, to bridge the gap between the sound world of a generation raised in an electronic culture and the gestural tradition of the hand.
His handouts evolved from a PDF to a publishsed book – Handmade Electronic Music The Art of Hardware Hacking (2006) (an expanded second edition was published in 2009.).
You can read the book online and explore the projects here.