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Re: Bend Points Active Even When Not Physically Touching

2020-01-18T20:38:49Z

You are imagining things.
lol jk
You have accidentally created a sensor. Just great when that happens. It is likely interference.

Re: Bend Points Active Even When Not Physically Touching

2020-01-15T10:25:28Z

It may be that you're getting enough capacitance to have an effect. You could trying swapping in some various small capacitors to see if you can achieve a similar effect.

You could even get one of those little variable capacitors used for radios — really old radios really used "air capacitors" — and then you can tune it to see if you can get a similar sound.

Bend Points Active Even When Not Physically Touching

2020-01-15T08:24:28Z

I found an interesting bend in a children's toy, and then realized that it still works even when the leads are just close to each other, but not physically touching. In fact, the sound is a bit different that way from when it's a physical connection. Has anyone run into something like this? I have no idea what could be causing it. Some kind of electromagnetic interference, maybe?

It creates a great sound, though, so I'm trying to figure out how to include it in the project and be able to control it in a more predictable way. Since I can't use a toggle (the two bend points wouldn't be far enough away), I was thinking I could use a couple of RCA jacks with some distance between them and just patch it, although I'm not sure that would work. Is there a better way to handle this kind of thing?