LED it up!

 

This week we started our adventure in the world of hobby electronics by learning the basics of circuitry. We experimented with LED’s, cables, and batteries to try to familiarize ourselves with how electrical current can be manipulated to create a circuit. I learned about how one distinguishes between and coordinates certain elements by doing things such as having one leg of the LED longer to represent the positive end. When experimenting with the bread board I learned two more specific details, that utilizing metal strips can help a current be divided into multiple columns and that a battery with voltage higher than that of the device the current is being put into will blow out the device.

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