Learn About the Circuit Board for Circuit Bending

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so I have this propped up. Obviously, it's not levitating. I've used a spool of solder and a spool of wire to prop it up for you. But this is--now you just kind of start looking at the circuit board, which is obviously what this is here. Again, each toy is going to be different. This one has most of the contacts that we're going to want to be experimenting with, already exposed, right? So, that is to say, you see all these little silver dots, all these little silver pins that have been kind of little tiny dabs of solder on it. This is the side of the board you play with. If we were to unscrew this board--now--I'll actually do that in the next clip, but--most circuit boards are attached to the case, actually they all are, through a few screws that go into some plastic posts. So, here's one here, I'll take that out in a minute. Here's one, here's one. Sometimes these circuit boards are mounted the other way so that all of the active stuff that you want to be messing with is on the other side, so in that case you need to take it out and, you know, if you're going to flip it over and play with it. If we were to flip this over, you'll see that on the other side there's all kinds of components over there, there's going to be little capacitors, little resistors and the integrated circuit that make the sounds. In fact, when I take this apart and flip it over, we will see what's on the other side."