Simple victories are so nice

[afuna]

I am sitting here in my seat, cackling, because I started with a breadboard and assorted components, followed the instructions, and now I have an LED that lights up when you push a button.

It didn't break! It worked! I got the polarity correct all around! And, let me repeat, it didn't break!

I am so stoked you all have no idea~


Simple circuit with a battery, resistor, push button, LED:

Simple circuit with the button pushed. LED is lit up!

ETA: ahhahah and I just reread the instructions, and realized that they actually gave which color resistor to use. I tried to calculate it on my own, and ended up using a 10k resistor rather than a 1k resistor. Ooops. Still lit up, like the photo shows, but (not shown) after changing resistors, the light is brighter.

Comments

[surpassingly]

Ahahahaha omg breadboards. The bane of my existence in physics days! Go you! So awesome you're having so much fun with it!

[afuna]

Hahahah oh man breadboards~~ I was so traumatized by them in lab. Like, I sucked so much the TA reduced me to tears the first day in lab (yelled I had no business being there!). AMF TRAUMA AMMMFF.

I am so so happy to have a breadboard in my own home and to be able to play on my own ♥ SO HAPPY. WATCH OUT ELECTRONICS I WILL... nail you to my breadboard. I don't know ;_;

[alierak]

Like Perl, there is more than one way to do it, but having fun is the right way!

[ninetydegrees]

Oh fond memories for me (I used to do this with my dad).

Congrats, Fu!

[afuna]

Whee thanks :D

[alierak]

Heh! My first time in a college EE lab I'd bought the wrong wire kit for the class, so I was sitting there cutting and stripping wires to fit the breadboard, and when I put the first simple logic circuit together it didn't work at all as advertised. I checked everything twice, mystified the TA, and then gave up and started to take it apart. At which point I noticed the smashed pin under the chip...

[afuna]

Hah! I'm glad you figured that out -- eventually ;)