LAB 1: ELECTRICITY & COMPONENTS

Goals
- Basic understanding of components
- Read a simple circuit diagram
- Translate from simple circuit diagram to breadboard
- Learn to use a multimeter

Differences between Software and Hardware
- Safety
- Mistakes can break things
- Work in modules, break large problems in to small
- Debugging with multimeter, not println()

Electronics > Electricity
- Voltage (110, 220, 5, 9, 12, Volts)
 . Check with multimeter, wall device
 . Relative, ground
- Current (Amps)
- AC/DC (Hertz)
- Resistance
- Conductance

Basic Components (show different types, symbols)
- Resistor
 . Measued in Ohms,
 . Values in painted bands
 . Check with multimeter, dashboard widget
- Capacitor
 . measured in Farads, usually microFarads, picoFarads
- Diode, Light emitting diode

Circuit
- Drawing to abstraction with light example

Kit
- Wire (Solid, stranded, braided)(Color coding)
- Breadboard
- Wire clippers
- Multimeter

Exercises
1. Resistor Worksheet (with partner)
2. LEDs Circuits (with partner)

Reading to complete for next class
- "Anatomy of a Flashlight" handout
- Physical Computing (pp. 3 - 48)
- 555 Timer handout
- Familiarize yourself with all Net references (from syllabus)