{"id":87,"date":"2008-09-25T04:02:17","date_gmt":"2008-09-25T08:02:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/?p=87"},"modified":"2018-09-22T03:36:56","modified_gmt":"2018-09-22T07:36:56","slug":"lab-3-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/lab-3-electronics\/","title":{"rendered":"Lab 3 &#8211; Electronics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-88\" title=\"img_2225\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2225-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I feel this week&#8217;s lab has made me become very comfortable in understanding how electronics in a circuit work. While it was the most simple out of\u00a0 all the labs we have had thus far, I gave me the opportunity to become more familiar with the common terms used in the physical computing world. It felt inappropriate to light up an LED with a switch without an Arduino micro-controller up until now!<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2236.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-90\" title=\"img_2236\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2236-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In this experiment, it became obvious that all the LED&#8217;s were sharing the same 5V that was being given to the breadboard. As you added one, the intensity of the light became dimmer.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2232.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-89\" title=\"img_2232\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2232-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I really like using the multimeter in this type of work; it is a great troubleshooting device. Problems are a normal thing that everyone frequently experiences when working in physical computing. I think in many instances you are more likely to solve a problem quicker when considering to use them in difficult times.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2240.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-91\" title=\"img_2240\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/09\/img_2240-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A great exercise to measure how current can be controlled by using a variable resistor such as a pot! I had a lot difficulty setting this simple circuit up for some reason, nothing at all seemed wrong with my setup! Later I notoiced that my DC adapter somehow got unplugged &#8230; checking if the adapter is plugged in will now go on my list of troubleshooting steps!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I feel this week&#8217;s lab has made me become very comfortable in understanding how electronics in a circuit work. While it was the most simple out of\u00a0 all the labs we have had thus far, I gave me the opportunity to become more familiar with the common terms used in the physical computing world. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pcomp"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2722,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/2722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.underwater.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}