Learn Where to Place an Audio Jack for Circuit Bending

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So we want to install this jack. The first thing you need to think about is where will it fit? Because a lot of times these toys are pretty small and cramped inside and maybe the place you would like to put a jack is not necessarily a place you can put a jack. Because look at it, I mean, you've gotta find a space or a gap in this project that's near the outside wall because you have to plug that thing to the outside wall, but there has to be room for kind of all of these stuff to kind of just sort to be floating inside plus actually I don't think much is added by putting the cord in there, no. I mean if it can accept--if you can find a space that will accept that whole jack, that will accept the cord as well, but you can't just put this anywhere. Like for example, maybe I think that well, maybe I want to put it here. I mean, it kinda looks like it might fit here near the speaker if I just drill a hole but in fact, if I were to close this toy up, I would find that a lot of the kinda plastic on this part of the case is going to run into it and I won't be able to close the case so that's probably not a good place to put it. So, the only point is you have to kinda look around and find a place where it looks like it'll fit given kind of the construction of the toy. I mean, looking at this now, it looks like I might be able to put it here, and I think that might be a good place for it. So we know that when we put a bit up against it, we know that the 3/8-inch bit was the right size and so I've got that in my drill here. So I'm going to drill a hole and we're going to install this jack."