Learn About Batteries & Equipment for Circuit Bending

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AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So, obviously, you're going to need to have batteries while you're circuit bending. One reason for this is that you need to be listening to your progress in your results while you're working, so you need to have batteries in your project while you're working on it. So it's not a bad idea to just have a bunch of batteries. You know, the nice thing about batteries is they can sometimes last a pretty long time in low voltage devices like these toys that we're working with. Something like this runs off of--I don't know what it is for. This one particularly will runs off of four AA batteries, right? When you buy these things at thrift stores or garage sales, a lot of times they'll have batteries in them. Sometimes those batteries are dead; sometimes they may still have a little bit of juice in them. My kind of workspace at home is just filled with you know, batteries that I haven't bought especially for circuit bending. They are just batteries that kinda came with toys when I got them and many of them still work and you just kinda keep them in a bag. Like I say, usually AA. Sometimes a toy will use a 9-V battery, a few things we use you know, C cells or D cells, but it's generally AA. Now, of course, it can be useful to know which batteries are good, which still have use in them and which ones don't because remember, you don't need to go out and buy a whole bunch of new batteries. That's kinda wasteful anyway. You can usually accumulate sort of you know, you have to use that batteries and there are usually pretty good for the purposes of working as a circuit bender, but one way to test whether your batteries are any good, is to have a volt meter, and I'm going to talk about that next.

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