Learn About Alligator Clips & Equipment for Circuit Bending

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AMANDA CLAIRE: So, another thing that is really useful for a circuit bending is little miniature alligator clips, and this is an example. Basically, it's the same thing as a jumper cable that you would use to jump-start your car except that it's teeny-teeny-tiny. And so, you see, it's got a little kind of clip there, a little alligator clip. They call it alligator clip because it kind has these little teeth in it, right? One on each side. These are actually insulated. What I mean is, well, obviously the wire is insulated, but the clips themselves kinda have these rubber little shoes on them, and that's to prevent yourself from electrocuting yourself if you were working on something with high voltage, but of course with circuit bending you're not and so I personally find these little rubber shoes to be kind of clumsy and cumbersome. I mean, they slip and they rotate around. So, you can just take them off and, well, not take them off, but they kinda slide right off, so you can expose that little clip itself. And you're not going to shock yourself circuit bending battery powered toys or keyboards or guitar pedals. So you might as well just kinda slide those off and actually, if you work with it, you could probably slide it off the other end. But having the bunch of these on hand is good. You can get these from your local electronic store. If you're really get into circuit bending, you're going to want to start ordering things from probably a wholesaler, but--so, alligator clips are kind of important and we'll talk about why--I'll just briefly say, they're used in the early stages of circuit bending to explore the circuit board to find, maybe points on the circuit board that could potentially be interesting to install permanent bends there. So, you use them while you're kind of exploring the board and try to figure out what you're going to do and then you kind of keep them in your toolbox and use them later on the next project that you do.

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