DAN DEMCHUK: Hi. I'm Dan Demchuk and right now I'm at the Paul Wall Manor where we're conducting where we're conducting a circuit bending workshop which I do now weekly at multiple locations around Chicago. We're kind of on tour right now, looking for more of a permanent space.

Today, I've got all kinds of different toys that I'm working on. I've got a clock radio and some other stuff, but you always need supplies when you're going to work on things. And today, what I'm going to talk about is where you can get your pieces to install.

You're gonna need a lot of things. Obviously, you're going to want to get outputs, 1/8" or 1/4" so you can plug these into a mixer once you've got them completed, potentiometers, push button switches, you know, on/off switches and stuff like that. There's all kinds of places you can pick these things up at. Everyone at first thinks like Radio Shacks but everything is too expensive there for me, so usually I'll frequent spots like American Science & Surplus which is located in Jefferson Park right around Milwaukee and Foster, Six Corners area. They will sell all kinds of scrap materials and old things as well as they have drawers full of switches and the knobs that you can but not really so much the stuff that I can get. What I want to use are things that are brand new namely because I'm installing them on really old things but also ones that have a much broader range, especially my potentiometer. I can get 1 megaohm or 2 megaohm potentiometers, and I usually get them online at allelectronics.com because I can buy things more in bulk. When I say bulk, I don't mean having to buy a hundred to get a discount; they'll give you a good discount if you buy 10 or more, and we're talking 30 to 40 cents a piece for these things, which is a great deal better than you're going to spend at the store. So, that's the first thing to get.

And of course to me like tools and equipment that you'll need are always a big factor also; we can get more to that in just a minute, so.