How to Repackage Circuit Bending Electronics

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LORIN EDWIN PARKER: We're going to wrap up this brief survey of simple circuit bending by talking about repackaging the circuit that you've bent and also thinking about further exploration. So let's take a look at what we did here. We've got this circuit and we've got a couple little glitchy controls we can do here, and mostly unlike in the touch points here, so one thing I could do that's really simple is you just drill a couple of holes. You take one two three holes and you stick these wires through those holes and then you repackage this as a toy and you'll have three nails sticking out of there and depending upon which one you touched and how hard you'll have an interface. But then as you get more and more stuff connected up to a board, you're going to want more space probably. So, that's where we end up with something like my other instrument over here. This is something I called "The Insanium" and it had a bunch of different circuit bent components within it, and all I've done is taken this and put it into what's called "a project box", which you can buy from any electronic supplier. You use a hand drill or drill press and drill holes in it. You can get them in plastic metal, wood, all different kinds of things. They're rather cheap. And here I have my potentiometers. I put knobs on them. You can buy the knobs with the potentiometers from the same places and you can turn it into an artistic expression and put this into your own case. I've seen these things in briefcases; I've seen them in Tupperware containers, anything you can think about. I've also seen them displayed out over the tables as bare circuits. But with circuit bending, don't feel limited to just these components. Try and think about opening up just anything you can. Go and get something. Make sure it's something that you're not too attached to because you might break it. But open it up if it makes sound, touch it, add potentiometers. You can go out and experiment, try capacitors, try resistors, try some of the other stuff that electronic store is going to sell you, and just add them in and see what happens. It's a process of tinkering and trial and error and the results are sometimes fabulous, sometimes fragile, but always fairly exciting and you have a unique and interesting object at the end. Thanks for joining me for this segment on circuit bending.

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