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1. Drill with 1/4 inch or drill bit
2. Glue Gun
3 Soldering iron and solder
3. wire strippers and two peices of small guage wire
4 Jelly bean Switch or similar to test your work
5. small electronics sized phillips screw driver
6. giggle pig, cow, dog or the like.
7. 1 female 1/8 ' mono jack port











































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Once a toy has been switch-adapted (as in this instructable), it can be turned on using any of a number of switches. Maybe the child can't press the little switch on the toy, but maybe they can press a switch that is 10" across. Maybe they can use a switch that they press by moving their head. Maybe they can twitch an eyebrow - there are switches that work with that. Point being, there are lots of different type of switches for various types of access. The industry standard is for such switches to terminate in a 1/8" male plug. This instructable shows how adapt a toy so that it can be controlled by such a switch.
my daughter has probems activating her giggling cow resorting to throwing it on the floor or asking someone to press its nose
I've been doing these mods for years for my daughter because the mark-up on the toys is ridiculous and the variety is slim, as you mentioned.
Keep it up!