How to Insert the Switch for Circuit Bending

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right, so now we're really into--deep into toy modification. I've cut this big gnarly hole in the casing here. Actually--oh no, you can really see this. Actually I ended up using the soldering iron, the hot soldering iron. That kind of opened up that hole and kind of smoothed out, and I don't know if I'm necessarily recommend doing that because they use different kinds of plastics on these toys, and some plastics may totally stick your soldering iron and gunk it all up and certainly the fumes can't be good so that's what I did that was sort of my creative solution that may or may not have been a good idea but the point is I've got a hole now that's big enough. I didn't have my Dremel tool but my switch will fit into it so we'll just go ahead and kind of stick it in there, and it fits kinda nicely. And in fact, this particular switch kinda has like little locking clips on the back of it so it just stays in place. And I don't think I need to put a screw in here or anything. I think it's just going to stay right there. So that's where our switch will go and you'll turn it around here. And you can see, now we've got this three exposed terminals of the switch. Remember the middle is going to go to that common point that we found, the one that I had the alligator clip clipped to most of the time, and then one of each of these will get soldered to one of those two other points that cause that effect. So we're going to now get this set up for soldering and we're going to kinda step by step go through and how we're going to solder the wires to the switch and get that switch working."