How to Insert the Metal Contacts for Circuit Bending

Video Transcript

"AMANDA CLAIRE: All right. So remember, for any body contact bend you need two metal contacts on the outside because those correspond to the two points in a circuit board that you're connecting with your body, right? So we've got--so the minimum body contact would just have two. So I've already put in, I haven't connected the wire yet, but I've already drilled a hole and I've put one of this little metal kind of, sort of spring rivets in there, and I'm going to do another one right now. I've just gotta drill bit that's the right size, just going to drill a hole; in this case, I'm going to put it right here. Okay, and the drill caught up with me there, and I'm just going to press this in, I mean, remember you don't have to use these little rivets; you can use steel thumbtacks, you can use little brass knobs, you can use even bolts if you wanted to. So, now--okay now I've got two pieces of metal here. Now what we need to do then is we would have to solder a wire to the other side of that piece of metal on the inside and one goes to one point on the circuit board that you know makes the body bend and one goes to the other point. So when we're not touching those two metal contacts, nothing happens but when we do touch them, we should get that body bend effect; in this case, it was kind of a space invader sort of raygun kind of sound. And so--next we'll solder those wires up and see how it works."