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components

  • Vilros RasberryPi Cobbler
  • vilros breadboard
  • sintron ultimate 37 in 1 sensor modules (for Arduino)

basics

electronic circuits

Electricity flows when it has a way to go around. When simple electrical components are connected to each other 'all the way round in a circle' they form a simple 'circuit'.

When you look at pictures of circuits, you might see photos of green boards with gold lines and lots of little coloured pieces attached - these are actual circuits. Or you may see black and white diagrams with lots of pictorial symbols in an interconnected framework - this is a circuit diagram which makes it clear what is connected to what.

soldering

To create permanent circuits, use a hot soldering iron to melt solder and fix components in place

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H3-TfdZVBCc

Breadboard

We don't want to solder permanent circuits, we just want to put together experiments, so we use a breadboard

Have a look at the video at:

https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/robot/breadboard/

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