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electronics
- Vilros RasberryPi Cobbler
- vilros breadboard
- sintron ultimate 37 in 1 sensor modules (for Arduino)
Components are the individual little pieces used in electronic devices. Different kinds have different shapes or colours but they all have silver metal leads (sometimes called legs or pins)
A circuit is a combination of components put together to do a particular thing.
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.
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
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.youtube.com/watch?v=oiqNaSPTI7w
https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/projects/raspberrypi/tutorials/robot/breadboard/
The "Sintron Ultimate 37 in 1 Sensor Modules Kit" is sold as being for the Arduino, but as they are simply electronic components they can of course be used with the Pi.
The documents can be downloaded from https://www.dropbox.com/s/oitqcijo9za7j9w/37%20in%201%20sensor%20pdf%20files.zip