Circuits

Breadboarding

In class, we were given a breadboard which is a small, rectangular object that we were able to use for wiring. We had small wires, a couple resistors, transistors, and LED lights, which we had to light up by connecting the wires and other such stuff correctly. :3

There are 2 kinds of gates that we had to create: and And gate, in which both battery/source of power 1 AND battery/source of power 2 had to be on in order for the LED to turn on. This also worked in that if both power sources were off, the light would also be off. An Or gate, which is the other type of gate, is one where you have to have one power source OR the other on in order for the light to work. If you had both sources of power on or off, the light would be off. :3

In CEDAR Logic

There is this program for the computer called CEDAR Logic, in which you can make circuits. Here are some examples of the logic gates that I've made using CEDAR:

I made them all with 3 different kinds of gates: Or, And, and Nand.

Soldering

Another thing that we did in class was build small robots.. or rather, we didn't build them, so much as we just soldered the LED lights, which were the eyes, the battery holder, and the pin needle onto a flat robot cutout. I'm not entirely sure what it was made of.. but it was probably plastic~. :3 Ah, yes. I forgot to say what soldering is. It's when you kind of glue two or more things together with melted metal. We used tin, because it wouldn't disturb the flow of electricity. :3 What we did was, we had to put the part in/on the "robot", and then use a heated metal rod (made especially for soldering, so it was safe~~) to melt the tin onto the robot where the lights or other part was. :3

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