Maker Factory ELECTRONICS EXPERIMENTS BOX, Manual

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Table of Contents
1 The Experiment Box ..............................................................................................11
1.1 What’s inside the experiment box ...............................................................11
1.1.1 Breadboard ............................................................................................................11
1.1.2 Transistors .............................................................................................................11
1.1.3 Diodes ................................................................................................................... 12
1.1.4 Solar cell ............................................................................................................... 13
1.1.5 Ceramic capacitors ............................................................................................... 14
1.1.6 Electrolytic capacitors ........................................................................................... 15
1.1.7 Fixed value inductance ......................................................................................... 16
1.1.8 Piezo element ....................................................................................................... 16
1.1.9 Jumper wire .......................................................................................................... 16
1.1.10 Battery clip 9-V block ............................................................................................17
1.1.11 Battery holder 1.5 V AA ..........................................................................................17
1.1.12 Resistors .................................................................................................................17
1.1.13 Moving-coil instrument ......................................................................................... 21
1.2 Tips ...........................................................................................................22
1.2.1 Successful equipping ............................................................................................22
1.2.2 Simple bending jig ................................................................................................22
1.2.3 Acoustic panel ......................................................................................................22
1.2.4 Moving-coil instrument .........................................................................................23
1.2.5 Practical use of the circuits in home and garden .................................................23
1.2.6 Buttons and switches ...........................................................................................23
2 Experiments .........................................................................................................24
2.1 Series connection ......................................................................................25
2.2 Parallel connection ....................................................................................29
2.3 Determining the connection sequence of a bipolar transistor ......................32
2.4 Determining the current amplification of a bipolar transistor ......................34
2.5 Diodes .......................................................................................................36
2.6 Double turn signals ....................................................................................42
2.7 Binary memory ......................................................................................... 44
2.8 Flashing bicycle light ................................................................................. 46
2.9 Solar light ................................................................................................. 48
2.10 Switch-off delay ......................................................................................... 51
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Bicycle light ...............................................................................................54
2.12 Peak-VU meter ...........................................................................................57