Finally figured out how to edit videos from my iPhone and upload them to YouTube.

This was my first proper attempt at hacking a circuit, from a smiley faced toy that Brad and Eleni brought to our first group meeting. In the first half of the video, I'm using some crocodile clips and my fingers to find different points in the circuit that make interesting noises. Most are affecting playback of the toy's tune: sppeding up/slowing down the playback speed, pausing/cutting playback or jumping back to the start.

I then attempted to solder a couple of wires and a switch across a couple of points on the circuit board. However, it became obvious very quickly that the tip on my soldering iron is far too big for this sort of circuit; the solder points were either too small or just would not take the solder properly and a couple of the tiny resistors disintegrated!

This could have been the end of Mr Smiley Face, yet it actually made things even better! One of the ex-resistors from the circuit was controlling the playback speed of the tune; with that resistor gone, simply touching that part of the circuit makes things go crazy, never returning back to the correct speed. I'm thinking about trying to solder a variable resistor of some sort in place - perhaps a potentiometer or a light dependant resistor, or perhaps some body-contacts to keep the fun of just touching the circuit!