Learn About Wires & Equipment for Circuit Bending

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AMANDA CLAIRE: So, another thing you're going to need eventually, not right away, but once you find the connections you want to make in your circuit board is you're going to need wire. And you don't want just any kind of wire. You want to get pretty narrow slender gauged wire like we've got here. It comes in different colors. I mean, I've got--I happen to like red. Here's a roll of black wire; it hasn't been opened yet. You can get it in yellow. You can get it in green, blue, probably any color you want. But you want wire that is, first of all, it's kind of slender, because a lot of times, there's not a lot of room inside these devices and so you don't want these huge, huge wires taking up room. So use slender wire. You want it to be insulated wire; "insulated" means that it has this kind of plastic sheath around it, obviously. And also what's important is that you use stranded wire, and what I mean by that is, you want to be able to see it on this video, but if were to look really, really closely at this wire, we would see that there's not just one copper wire in there. There's actually, maybe 8 to 10 to 12 different strands of very, very thin copper wire in there and they're kind of all twisted and braided together. And the reason that's a better type of wire to use than let's say, they do make another type of wire which I think they sell it as speaker wire. And that is a thicker type of copper wire that is still insulated in a sheath, but it's thicker, it's less flexible, it brakes easily and so obviously you want to be able to kind of twist and turn and route wires where you want them. So, one of the benefits of stranded wire is because it has many strands in it and they're thinner strands. It's a lot more flexible and it's not going to break as easily. So, narrow gauged stranded wire, get a lot of it, and have it on hand.

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