I visited a blurry memory that I believed would never be useful in the future, back in the Dominican Republic the electronic principles is part of the curriculum at school but we never got to apply/ make circuits physically. Being mindful of a direction that I would like to take with assistive technology, it is helpful to want to start learning about the mechanics of a product, why we want to interact with them, the meaning of its intentional delays and its final answer back-to us.
A fun way to start understanding circuits? The connecting the dots game. “The objective is to connect dots of the same color by drawing 'pipes' between them such that the entire grid is occupied by pipes. However, pipes may not intersect.”
In a circuit, the negative terminal starts with the battery, conducts fewer electrons with the resistor and continues to the positive terminal. Once our entire grid is occupied by colored pipes (conductors) that follow after the ending point of each other, our circuit is closed and the current flows.
Before showing the assignment. Thank you🤠✨ Cesar, Andriana, Bingrui, Sara, and all the technicians at the PComp Workshop.
Measuring Resistance
Measuring resistance pt2
Measuring voltage across an LED
Pushbutton controlling an LED
Pushbutton controlling two LEDs
Pushbutton controlling three LEDs wired in parallel
Measuring amperage of one LED, of three LEDs wired in parallel
Potentiometer controlling
a LED
Three switches in parallel
Three switches in series
Switching a motor
Rookie mistakes, the curated collection:
-Not puncturing the board all the way through. -Not placing some components all the way through, again. -Confusing a phototransistor, which is only controlled by light, with a LED light. -Thinking the circuit wasn’t working but my LED light was damaged.
SWITCH
Drafts
Final Product