Circuit Bending 101: What To Look For When Buying A Toy
Circuit Bending 101 continues with this introduction to purchasing "victims". Dan Demchuk covers the basics of shopping, hunting down, and looking for bending possibilities before purchase.
A big key, of course, is to find devices that are battery powered and not AC powered. As always, plenty of time-bend options on a device help, as you will need them to attach potentiometers and switches. Stay tuned to Gearwire.com, as we present more circuit bending tips. Next month, keep an eye open as we delve deeper into the more advanced processes of circuit bending.
DAN DEMCHUK: Hi. I'm Dan Demchuk. Right now I'm at a circuit bending workshop I've been conducting every week. Today, it's at the Paul Wall Manor.
Right now, let's talk about all kinds of toys and things that you can bend and why. A lot of people look mainly for keyboards and electronics type of stuff like that, but I like my stuff to look really simple and plain. I want to look like I'm still playing with kid's toys, so I'll pick up all kinds of things like, you know, old baby dolls that have voice boxes on the inside, old stuffed animals like Elmo toys that have voice boxes installed. Ray guns. This right here is a girl's toy. It's a cheer-leading toy. Also, this VTech Sing-N-Learn CD player.
I know usually, what I look for around here is a time bend where I can control the pitch and speed. You can get a lot of stuff out of there and usually let these things drone on or fly out of your window, they're going so fast.
awesome demonstration.
super informative. thanxxx!!!
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