Topics Covered

• Safety with components
• Hooking up circuits on a breadboard
• Identifying resistors, capacitors, transistors, IC's, and more
• What is Voltage, Current, and Resistance
• Ohm's Law Applied
• Learn how to use sensors
• Reading codes on components
• Measuring voltage and resistance
• What is digital logic
• What is a gate circuit
• Checking gate circuits with a multimeter
• Transformers

Learning Events

• Discover the invisible magnetic field and map out a flux line.
• Build a magnetic pulse generator to rock the world (or at least rock a compass).
• Use an invisible magnetic force to switch on and off an LED through a process called induction.
• See the results of electrons passing through your body and never feel a thing! Amaze your friends by completing a ring of current through them.
• Build an LED vibration detector.
• Build a direction of rotation indicator.
• Use a magnet to change a tone generator's pitch.
• Build a circuit to detect invisible electromagnetic waves in your home or office.
• Build a circuit that uses touch sensors.
• Build circuits that detect the presence of magnets.
• Build a pressure indicator.
• Build a burglar alarm and catch the crooks.
• Build oscillator circuits.

Forty Hands-On Experiments in All

 Topics Covered

• Safety with Components
• Photo Resistors
• Photo Transistors
• Thermistors
• Bipolar Transistors
• How Speakers Work
• Operational Amplifiers
• More advanced Op-Amp topics like gain and open loop properties
• Bar-graph Readouts
• Operational Amplifiers
• Oscillators
• Comparator Circuits

Learning Events

• Correctly identifying the Emitter, Collector and Base of a transistor
• Identifying resistors, capacitors, transistors, IC's, and more
• Experiments with Voltage, Current, and Resistance
• Ohm's Law Applied to circuits
• How to use a bar-graph as an output device
• Discovering how speakers work
• Advanced uses for sensors  
• Connecting and using operational amplifiers
• Comparing open and closed loop gain of an op-amp
• Construct variable frequency oscillators
• Build and test comparator circuits  
• Advanced schematic reading and circuit construction

Forty Hands-On Experiments in All