This is an Interactive Media Elective course that cross lists with Visual Arts, open to both majors and non-majors. Circuit Breakers! is a course designed to introduce students to the world of hardware hacking and circuit bending for artistic and mainly sonic ends. By literally opening up common battery powered objects such as toys and finding their circuit boards, one can change the behavior of the object by simply interrupting the way the circuit normally works. This technique has both predictable and unpredictable outcomes, but it is almost always satisfying. Students will also build their own circuits with a minimum amount of components. Many of the projects in this course center on common integrated circuits (microchips), which we will cajole, trick, and abuse in order to create art.