DAN DEMCHUK: Hi. I'm Dan Demchuk with Circuit Bending Workshop. Today we're at the Paul Wall Manor. First thing I want to talk about though is why you want to make to focus on battery-powered things. You don't want to kill yourself that's why.

It's really simple when you've got power plugged into a wall to get an electric shock when, like myself, who if you're just exploring sound boards to find different things, you can easily find the wrong thing which can start fires, shock you, hurt you, and all kinds of bad stuff.

So, you can use like a clock radio which also can run on a nine-volt battery. I had a friend at one of the circuit bending workshops and she was quite successful in doing that. There's also another exception. Tom Stevenson is a master at rewiring old television sets, and there's apparently a really bad place in there that if you touch it, you can basically kill yourself, so I would look a little bit further into electronics in general before I got into that stuff, but if you're just going to do circuit bending, stick to kid's toys.