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Objectives

Lesson 1: Breadboards

Prototyping & Experimenting like resistors, capacitors,

When you want to built an transistors, diodes, switches,
electronic circuit, you can certainly relays (and more) work

connect things together using clip  Be able to follow an
leads like you did in other electronic schematic diagram
electronic circuits. But, most to build a circuit
circuits need dozens of wires. If  Learn how to ‘breadboard’ a
you can imagine trying to clip 50 circuit
clip leads to terminals without
having a single one come off or  Understand when and how to
touch another that it shouldn’t, use series and parallel
you’ll probably guess this won’t circuitry
work very well. So, we use some  Create really cool projects
other ways to wire up circuits that like audible light probes,
are especially good while we’re flashing circuits, and light-

experimenting. detecting circuits as well as

Let’s start with the breadboard. human-interactive circuits
The breadboard lets you wire up (the Lie Detector)
circuits in a neat and organized  Hone your troubleshooting
way, and without soldering. They skills, which are essential if
also make it easy to change or fix you’re going to be a scientist
your circuit, add more of any kind
components and also replace
parts if you damage them while
experimenting (this happens semi-
regularly when you’re designing a
new circuit).

By the end of this lesson, you will
be able to:

 Identify and describe how
basic electronic components

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