How to Test the First Body Contact for Circuit Bending

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"AMANDA CLAIRE: Okay, so now I've taken the tape off and I've only soldered one of these at this point. Remember, I had tape over--okay, off, just for a moment. Now I had tape over these just kind of keep them in place while I was soldering on the other side. Now I removed it. This one's nice and solid. This is soldered to that common place on the board that worked with those contacts, and not that this one attached. And so now let's test it, that other ones aren't attached yet, but let's test it. Let's turn it on and just--sometimes it helps to moisten your fingers a little bit, to kind of activate it, just to kind of conduct the electricity a little bit better. There it is. And you notice, it only works when you touch both of them, right? So there we go, there's a body contact then. And--turn it off for a second. And some of the other ones I found, basically the same thing but slightly different pitch. So, I'm going to go ahead and install the other three here. It's slightly different pitches. We'll do it the same way we did that one, just by running a wire from the body--or we're going to put our tape back on, we're going to run a wire from the body contact and the inside to the circuit board, to the point that we found, make a large blob of solder on the other side to just kind of hold that body contact in. And then, we'll remove the tape and when we finish that, all four of these should be working. We should be able to get four different, kind of laser, kind of a laser tag kind of sounds."