How to Unscrew the Circuit Boards for Circuit Bending

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: So, just so we can look at it, I'm starting to take some of these screws out that are holding the circuit board in place; remember, I'm going to be real careful to put these screws somewhere else. They're actually, as you can see a different size than the screws that held the case together, so I'm going to set them over here and remember, I'm being careful not to break the connections that run to the power supply or that run to the speaker. I'm just going to take these three screws out, just kind of gently. This is you know-circuit boards are pretty durable. So you know, it's not brain surgery, but you do want to kinda, you sort of be gentle with them. I mean, you probably won't break it, but you know just take your time at doing this and just think about what you're doing because it is possible that you might break it, break kind of a necessary connection and you won't see what that connection was that you broke and then you'll be kind of stuck until you figure out what you screwed up, right? So now I've taken those apart and again, I'm kind of in a situation where I have to make sure that I don't break any of these connections. I can flip it over and there's a lot going on this side here and let's prop this up so you can see. So now on the other side of circuit board and these are-these black things, these are integrated circuits. A lot the sounds of this toy reside in those integrated circuits. These are little resistors here, kind of all in a row, capacitors, these cylindrical things are capacitors, right? So this generally is not the side you'll be working with when you're doing circuit bending. Really, you're going to be working with this side which is the side by which all of these components are connected with one another because all these components have little metal posts that go through holes on this kind of board here and then on the other side, there's--the circuit is printed with--well, I won't talk about circuit printing now, but you can see there's kind of a pattern of the circuit there and these are all soldered there. So, just to know that you know there is important stuff on the other side of board, but this is the side of the board that you're going to be playing with for the most part when you're circuit bending."