Circuit Bending Challenge 10-28-07

A few weeks back a friend gave me this zapper gun to see what I could do to it. The spinning lights in the bulb had broken so when turned on the lights would just clatter around the plastic bulb and he wanted me to fix it. Of course when I finally opened it up I would find a few bends and mod it to my pleasure.

And keep it...



I put in two contact screws on the side of the gun which are soldered to these points on the board,



And an output for amp or pa was put in by the trigger,



Originally I thought the bends were only in the screws, but after completing this and toying around I found more sounds could be made by touching the screws with the output to lengthen the sound.

Larger versions of the video can be found at,

Vanillatray's Flickr set

It was a rather simple bending session and the least money I've ever put into a project, but this zapper came into my hands just when I discover that there's a circuit bending challenge.

Here is a video of the zapper in action,



Links:

Get Lofi
Create Digital Music

**UPDATE**

승리 괴물 suggested how they would want to see it in the dark. I agree, so I upped this real quick like:



I recorded this in front of a mirror for added effect.