This is my first time building a circuit out of a breadboard, or any circuit since the 7th grade for that matter. The experience was definitely a steep learning curve for me. Mostly it just took a lot of tries to wrap my brain around the flow of parallel circuits, and the flow of the breadboard. Super fun, super rewarding — especially that moment when my funny little switch actually worked.
I’d like to know how to make a switch turn the whole circuit on and off when the components are in parallel. As you can see in the video, my switch only turns one LED on and off. I think I have any idea of how to do it, but I would’ve had to rearrange my circuit from scratch (and I was so close to being done with my homework assignment), so next time!
Here is my circuit pre-switch:
Professor David Rios was super helpful — not just to me, but he was really making himself available to all of us working in the shop last night. Nick Grant (my classmate whom I have pretty much every class with this semester) was also super helpful (he’s the one who shot this video), as was Aswathy (very much so). Sadly I don’t know her last name. Still getting to know everybody.
Anyways, on to the next adventure in physical computing!