A Good Analogy
Online at Wikipedia
There's a really good page on Wikipedia
about the analogy between electronics and hydraulics (waterworks)
Circuit Bending Demo Continued
- Finish diagramming
- Solder in some wires
- Work with a breadboard
- Add-ons:
- Two plates and a field
- It's like a battery
- microFarads
- Por Qué Capacitors?
- To smoothe a circuit – a capacitor can even out the voltage by absorbing the peaks and filling in the valleys
- Making it permanent
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DIP Switch |
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Knife Switch |
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Pushbutton |
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Rocker Switch (SPST) |
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6-Position Rotary Switch |
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Slider Switch (DPDT) |
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Tactile (Tact) Switch (SPST) |
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Toggle Switch (DPDT) |
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Toggle Switch (SPDT) |
LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) | |||||
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Red LED |
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Two color LED |
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Regular diode (light-less) |
Resistors | |||||
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Resistor (1/2 Watt) |
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Resistor (10 Watt) |
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Surface-Mount Resistor |
Potentiometers | |||||
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Trim Potentiometer |
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Trim Potentiometer |
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Dial Potentiometer |
Capacitors | |||||
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Ceramic Capacitor |
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Electro- |
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Tuning Capacitor |
More on Capacitors at How Things Work
Working With Junk
Scrounge for:
- Speakers, motors, power supplies...
Sound Chips
- Oscillators
- Envelopes
- Filters
- Samples
- Analog vs. PCM (Pulse Code Modulation)
- Modulation/ADC (Analog to Digital Conversion)
- Demodulation/DAC (Digital to Analog Conversion)
Break
Bend Some Circuits!
But First…
Practice some soldering on a circuit board