Final Project Idea(s?)

For my final project I'm thinking about completely taking more than one toy apart and trying to combine them so they interact together. If that doesn't work, I'll see what else I can do with the electronics. I don't suppose I'm in too much risk of electric shock with two double A batteries. I might fry a finger with the power from four AA's though.

I'm more curious to see what would happen than to trying to find a specific result. 

Circuit Bending Project

My toy had push-buttons with a voice that stated when the user rhymed two pictures that were on the buttons. My circuit bending project worked until the very last day of working in the art department.

I had two circuit bends in place. The first made the voice slow down and talk really low. It was like having a baritone teach a kindergarden class. The second bend produced fuzz and made the volume louder simultaneously. On the final day I tried to do a third circuit bend but I saudered parts of the original chip together and I think that caused the whole thing to short out. I was able to get fuzz when I hooked the speaker directly to the battery, but unless the wires were moving across the surface, there was silence.

I tried to throw together a second project from a toy that Laurissa gave me. The only thing that I was able to do was exchange the speakers from a tiny, hardly-audible sound-maker to something that was lauder and made even more obnoxious car sounds. It looks like a tangle of wires, but I may still be able to do something with it. I'll see what I can do in the time that I have.