 This is an electric piano I bought off of Amazon and I'm gonna show you how to build it. Last year I filled up this shelf with a bunch of electronic kits and never actually ended up using any of them. So I thought it'd be cool that we did a series where we went through every single one of these kits, built them together, I showed you how it worked and if you wanted to get it or follow along there'd be a link in the description where you can go buy it and we can build it together. Let's just start with the top pile right here. What's this? Also if you have a kit online you want me to review just link it and I'll go buy it and then I'll build it for you. So this is a DIY electric piano. I'm not sure how good the sound's going to be but it comes with eight different sounds, eight different buttons and you have to put it all together yourself. The only thing it comes with is a board with printed labels and then obviously it's you just have to put everything through and you can solder it up together. We get eight switches then we get an IC and one of those IC adapters so that if it burns out you could just swap it like a quick swap. All these pins are super bent so we're gonna have to go and bend them ourselves. We've got some capacitors here that's three of the same and then one big one and a little power terminal so you can put in your battery I guess and then a speaker obviously with a shitty cable we're going to replace. First thing we're going to need is our soldering iron. I'll put a link below where you can get one of these. I got this one on Amazon for like 10 bucks. I'll put a picture up of the paper that you're supposed to receive with the kit. It shows everything you have in the kit and I would recommend separating it all on a table like we do here to make sure everything's ready and organized for when you build it. You should have six 2k resistors that go through our three or four or six or seven or eight and our nine. You should have one 10k resistor and then two 1k resistors. In the video I forgot about one of the 1k resistors as I was building it but in the end I showed that we went back and built it so just keep a note of that. The next step is just going to be literally just placing them in the holes. You do have to be somewhat careful with this because they do snap but I've got plenty so I don't really care. We're going to be soldering on the side with all the little contact patches so this side is just printed so that we know where to put everything but this side is the important one we're going to be soldering to. So let's just put all of our resistors through. Also don't put one in and then solder and get all of it in. Make sure it all fits and everything's right and then we're going to go and solder it in. All right so that's all our two k's through. I'm just going to put the 1k through at this point. I'm just weeding in one side and then bending in the other but that's it. That's the resistors right there now I think we have to do the switches but I'm definitely going to need a plier to fix those pins. Most of these metals they'll bend maybe once or twice and then once you bend it again they're going to snap. Okay look at that perfect fit. I think if you can get them through the hole then you can go and put in the pressure and then they'll just bend in place but if one's not through the hole you're going to screw it up. Yeah that works. As long as you can get them through the holes once you give it a bit of pressure they'll start to fit and that actually looks really nice. All right so I don't know if the camera missed a lot of stuff but we put in all resistors they didn't really fit so we kind of got them on this slanted angle because I used my own and not the ones that came with the kit. Then we got all the switches through we needed to kind of just align them into the holes and then once you push through the pins molded into the shape of the holes. If you try to align them with the plier outside and then you miss a hole I almost broke a couple of these switches so I would recommend if you could just get them to align in the holes and then you just push it through they'll bend in the right direction you just have to give it a bit of a push just don't do it like this because you're going to break your board in half do it individually. Now that we got all the resistors in I think we just have to get our IC in which has totally screwed up pins so the same thing I'm just going to get them in the general direction these are way softer. If I could just get it to align in the holes there we go see so it's aligned in the holes but I'm just going to give it a hard push and now all the pins bent over I'm going to grab these capacitors and do the same thing so we got three of these little brown pill looking ones these are going to be labeled C1 C2 and C3 and those are going to go right here the 104 resistance I throw that like that it doesn't need to be perfect it just needs to not touch anything else then we're going to slide the other one right behind it also it's not a big deal if they're touching now it's more a big deal if they're touching when you're putting electricity through it so I'm just going to get it through and then we got one more to say I have no clue where it goes oh right here where it's labeled 104 and you see C2 switch one to switch six is going to be two k's then one k and a 10 k then you got your three capacitors up here then your big capacitor there's a side with white on it and there's a side with black this one does need to be placed in the right direction there's also a short and a long prong coming out of it so make sure you put it onto the right direction color to color black to black at the bottom you'll also see which side is color so the shorter prong is color so we're just going to slide it in like that and this one should go as low as you can it's a pretty tight fit too all right all right so you just split your ends here and then I'm going to come in with my strippers and we're just going to peel it off right here another way of doing it I don't think I have a lighter on me but you just light with a flame very gently and then either with scissors or with pliers you kind of just peel off that melted area get some exposed metal that you could stick through a hole doesn't have to be that much make sure you twirl it too don't try and stick it through all their own brittle so I was mistaken we're we're missing one more resistor there's one for each switch and then at the end there's a 1k resistor right under the ic so we're just going to slide this it's a 1k put that through right here okay let's do a little recap we have a resistor for each switch then we have our three 104 resistors or sorry capacitors we got two stacked on top of each other or c1 and c3 and then we have c2 right next to them over there too those three are all the same so it doesn't matter which one's in which right under that you have your little ic adapter you don't have to use this but I would recommend it so that if it burns you could just swap it and then right next to that you have your big capacitor your 1.7 uf then I've got everything bent over like this so that I could just tap them and then go and cut them through rest our soldering iron on that little metal pad for a couple seconds and then we're going to feed in just a little bit of our soldering iron and that should fill the hole if it's not heated before there's going to be a bunch of issues so just give it a little heat on the pad wait a couple seconds and then start feeding it through from the angle that I had with my face behind the massive camera these looked like really good solders but seeing the camera angle these are really bad you really want to wait a bit longer and let the pad heat up more so the solder goes all the way around but again from my angle I couldn't see that towards the end you'll see me do a better job and go back and fix those all right look at that beauty oh now it should work I think we just need to get our IC in there and I do not remember what end this goes in so this there's a little there's a little like hole or a half circle hole in the adapter and in this I should still know if I put it down the right way oh I did there's a marking there's a marking that says the side with the little hole in it it's not a hole it's like it'll tap in it goes towards the bottom of the board oh looks like we're in all right looks like we're working let's get a power supply and plug it in and see if we can play some music paper sheet it can do three to nine volts of power so I'm just going to grab a nine volt battery and wire didn't grab one of these snip it in the ends this is a little adapter I got these on amazon for super cheap all right so I got a little screwdriver you just have to turn left just make sure that they're in the middle here that they're not leaking those little strands they're not touching each other and then you just have to get a battery to plug into that vibration something's happening oh it works so it works that's our little electric piano you can go and put in those little buttons if that's what you want oh maybe not that's pretty cool it sounds like absolute garbage but that's how it works just to go over everything we went we put on all our resistors we put in all our switches then we did our capacitors don't forget the little resistor the 1k hiding here in the back then we did our ic which is our little 555 module it comes with the kit it's just a little thing you plug it in and you make sure that the little notch in it matches the bottom side of the board it actually shows you a little drying of the notch so this way is the bottom of the board because it stands up like that and there you go sounds pretty bad but it works if this helped you give it a thumbs up and I'll see you in the next one