dude, don't be a dick and just be happy people are giving you advice

And this is coming from a HUGE DICK.

  this is a *discussion forum* not a *help me i'm too lazy to look things up forum*

I wasn't

and don't know if you're aware of it ^ but you just contradicted yourself

As long as the terms are specific, I don't see a reason not to look them up yourself.

you see I did try that on a few things and came up with dead ends.----> which is why I would ask.

Geez, on all these forums I've been on when you ask a newbie question everybody wants to jump your ass and call you lazy and scream about google.
Did you not stop to think I tried that first and didn't get anywhere so maybe I would ask the so called experts?

sorry to anyone who I offended by humbly asking for a little bit of knowledge.

Sometimes I don't know what people are talking about when they use specific terms and what not.

As long as the terms are specific, I don't see a reason not to look them up yourself. I'll give you a hint and tell you that a good start with circuit bending is to open a battery operated toy and start shorting things until it sounds cool. It's really basic and you don't need any electronics experience!

Downstate wrote:

use google man jeez....

then why were sites like this made?

for cunts to troll newbs of course. duh : P

.. so until I learn to use desoldering wick, they're useless. So, uh, yeah....

PROTIP: Heat travels up that shit and will burn your fingers and you will drop your soldering iron on your carpeting and burn it.

Screamforme99 wrote:

Dude just go on evilbay and buy all those fucked up DMGs and practice!

This is terrible advice for someone who knows nothing about electronics. I would suggest meeting up with some like minded people with whom you can ask beginner questions. Also, be very safety concious. I don't know where you live but try http://dorkbot.org/

At least you could go along to one of their sessions and have a chat to some folks.

Funny story. I bought 3 DMGs from around town and fucking soldered over the pins in all of them... so until I learn to use desoldering wick, they're useless. So, uh, yeah.... Follow Celsius on this one, haha.

Downstate wrote:

use google man jeez....

then why were sites like this made?

not to start a shit storm or anything but this is a *discussion forum* not a *help me i'm too lazy to look things up forum*.
I'm not saying you were lazy or didn't look things up, but making a forum topic should not be an alternative to looking things up on your own.

use google man jeez....

then why were sites like this made?