Thank you so much for sharing this! How wonderful! It's so great to see the inner workings and how you make creative decisions along the way. The glitch switch is a keeper if you ask me! Soon I'll have to make a thrift store run myself :D
Glad to hear you enjoyed it! If you like this stuff, you should check out Nicolas Collins's "Handmade Electronic Music." What I'm doing is basically Chapters 12-15 of the 2nd Edition. (There's a new edition out this year, that apparently has some changes. I'm still in the process of checking it out).
Not sure if anyone has mentioned this yet, but a resistor inline with the LED is best practice to limit the current to the LED and prevent it from burning out. The value of the resistor will vary depending on the LED and the voltage of the power supply, but generally speaking a resistor between 50-150 ohms would be expected. That one looks like red-orange violet, which would be 230MOhms, which seems like a lot, but I can't tell the third band color for sure. It might well be 230 ohms, which is more in the right range. It will affect the brightness of the LED a little, so finding just the right value may be important to you (there are calculators online) but too bright leads to fizzle, smoke, and getting a new LED.
Thank you so much for this series! It's super informative and beginner-friendly :) Just and idea - it seems the glitch switch is releasing all the current quickly even when youre using a resistor or potentiometer. maybe putting another potentiometer right after the glitch switch will give you slower lenghtier glitches? Either way I'm waiting for your next video :)
Thanks! I think you might be right. The "glitch switch" is providing a shortcut (but one with a little resistance still). Anyway, the next video is recorded. Check back Wednesday of next week to learn the fate of the wand!
this is awesome, super valuable. Thank you!! (p.s .. would you or do you do one on one support / consultation for circuit bending ? I am just getting started.. I have some dirty video mixers already.. so I just need help with routing them and getting set up. but there is always room for growth and creating my own in the future)
Glad to hear the video was helpful! Thanks for asking about the consultation, but I'm not currently taking on any new gigs like that at the moment. It sounds like you're doing some cool stuff though! Just keep experimenting!
