Beginning Breadboarding Physical Computing and the Basic Building Blocks of Computers
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| Sprache: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
Apress L. P.
2023
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed |
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Inhaltsangabe:
- Intro
- Table of Contents
- About the Author
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1: Introduction, Supplies, and Circuit Diagrams
- Safety Rules
- Safety Rule 1: Short Circuits
- Safety Rule 2: Right-Hand Rule
- Safety Rule 3: What's More Dangerous - Electrical Current or Voltage?
- Safety Rule 4: Use the Right Tools and Components and Use Them Properly
- Tools and Materials
- Reading Circuit Diagrams
- What Other Information Is in This Diagram?
- How to Read This Book
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- Summary
- Chapter 2: Paper Circuits
- What Is Electricity?
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- Atoms: The Building Blocks of Nature
- Project 2-1: Static Electricity!
- Current, Voltage, and AC vs. DC
- Project 2-2: Playing with Voltage
- Let's Make Our First Circuit!
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- Project 2-3: Let There Be Light!
- Project 2-4: Making It Bigger!
- Schematic Symbols for an LED and a Battery
- Project 2-5 (Optional): Paper Circuits!
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- Build Procedure
- Add All the Lights! (a.k.a. Series and Parallel Circuits)
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- Project 2-6: Connecting Two LEDs to One Battery
- Project 2-7: Our First Parallel Circuit
- Project 2-8: More Parallel Circuits!
- Project 2-9: Our First Series Circuit
- Summary of Parallel and Series Circuits
- Electromagnetic Spectrum
- Going Further
- Project Ideas!
- Project 1: Light-Up Greeting Cards
- Project 2: Tiny Light-Up Furniture for Dolls, Action Figures, or Just Because Miniature Things Are Adorable!
- Project 3: Add Some Light-Up Flair to Your Halloween or Other Holiday Costumes!
- Project 4: More Lights on Your Bike!! Or Model Train
- Project 5: Tiny Lightsaber!
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Breadboards and Outputs
- Breadboard Anatomy
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- Breadboarding: Lights On!
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- Project 3-1: Light It Up on a Breadboard!
- Procedure
- Project 3-2: All the Lights!!
- Procedure
- Making Sounds!
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- Project 3-3: Circuit Sounds!
- Procedure
- Schematic Symbol for a Speaker
- How Does Electricity Make Sounds??
- An Introduction to the Common Speaker
- An Introduction to How Piezo Elements Work
- Making Movement!
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- Project 3-4: Motor Motion!
- Procedure
- Schematic Symbols for a Motor
- How Is Electricity Making the Motor Spin??
- In-Depth Overview of Motors for Those with Insatiable Curiosity
- Lights and Sounds and Motion, Oh My! But... Why?
- Going Further
- Summary
- Chapter 4: Controlling Electricity (Passive Components)
- Resistance: Limiting Electricity
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- Project 4-1: Modifying Lights with Resistors!
- Resistor Schematic Symbol
- How Do Resistors Work?
- Project 4-2 (Optional): Draw a Resistor!
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- A Mini Introduction to Ohm's Law!
- Potentiometers: Adjustable Resistors!
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- Project 4-3: Dim the Light!
- Potentiometers: How Do They Work?
- Project 4-4: Dim More Lights!!
- Potentiometer Schematic Symbol
- Capacitors: Flood Gate Components!
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- Project 4-5: Light Flash!
- How Is a Capacitor like a Flood Gate?
- Schematic Symbol for a Capacitor
- Special Safety Note on Capacitors
- Going Further
- Summary
- Chapter 5: Interacting with Electricity via Buttons and Switches! (Electromechanical Components)
- Pushbuttons: Hang onto Your Switch!
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- Project 5-1: Light at Our Fingertips
- Written Instructions (First Half)
- Written Instructions (Second Half)
- Pushbuttons: A Lifetime of Bouncing Back
- Pushbutton Schematic Symbol
- (Slide) Switches: Set It and Forget It
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- Project 5-2: Breadboard Flashlight
- Written Procedure
- Slide Switches: Stay in That State!
- Poles and Throws
- Other Types of Permanent Switches
- Permanent Switch Schematic Symbol
- Project 5-3: Find and Record All the Switches!
- Project 5-4: Lights and Motors!
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- Written Procedure (Full Instructions)
- Going Further
- Summary
- Chapter 6: Encoding Information into Electricity! (Logic Gates Part 1)
- Why Records Sound Better Than CDs
- Logically Delicious! (Building Basic Logic Gates)
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- Project 6-1: Combining Two Pushbuttons!
- Solutions to Experiment
- Project 6-2: Gotta Push'Em All! (Pushbuttons in Series)
- Written Instructions
- AND Logic Gate Schematic Symbol
- Project 6-3: Push Any Button (Pushbuttons in Parallel)
- Written Instructions
- OR Logic Gate Schematic Symbol
- How to Count with Just Two Fingers (a.k.a. Binary Numbers)
- Project 6-4: Flip It and Reverse It! (NOT Gate)
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- Written Procedure
- NOT Logic Gate Schematic Symbol
- Project 6-5: Making Decisions with Logic Gates!
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- Bonus Points: Logic Gate As Input
- Going Further: More Logic Gates and Project Ideas!
- Quick Intro to Other Logic Gates: NAND and NOR!
- Build All the Projects!
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Sensors!
- Using Our Senses to Detect Sensors
- Project 7-1: The Wonderful World of Sensors
- A Brief Inventory of Sensors
- Analog vs. Digital
- What Kinds of Things Can We Sense with Electricity?
- Electronic Eyes: Photoresistors!
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- Project 7-2: Light-Sensitive Light
- Written Instructions
- But Wait, Electronic Eyes?! How Does That Work??
- Photoresistor Schematic Symbol
- Electronic Touch: Force-Sensing Resistors
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- Project 7-3: Touch-Sensitive Light
- Written Instructions
- FSR: Converting Touch into Electricity
- FSR Schematic Symbol
- Electronic Proprioception: Tilt Sensors!
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- Project 7-4: Gravity-Sensing Light
- Written Instructions
- The Beautifully Simple Tilt Sensor
- Tilt Sensor Schematic Symbol
- Electronic Motion Sensing: IR Sensors!
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- Project 7-5: Sensing "invisible" light
- Written Instructions
- Sensing Invisible Light
- IR Break-Beam Schematic Symbol
- Going Further: All the Sensors and Fun Project Ideas!
- Sensor Stuff!
- Build All the Projects!
- Summary
- Chapter 8: Transistors: The Building Blocks of Computers!
- Transistors As an Electronic Switch
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- Project 8-1: Make an Electronic Switch
- Written Instructions
- Written Instructions
- Project 8-2: How Much Voltage on the Gate Pin?
- (FET) Transistor Schematic Symbol
- Unraveling the Mystery of Transistors!
- Semiconductors: The Secret Sauce
- Transistor Taxonomy
- Too Many Letters!!
- Transistors As Amplifiers
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- Project 8-3: Make an Amplifier!
- Circuit Overview
- Written Starting Instructions
- Full Written Instructions
- P-cause We Can: P-Channel FETs (Optional)
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- Project 8-4 (Optional): P-Channel Switch
- Written Instructions
- Written Instructions
- Going Further: Transistor Time!
- Summary
- Chapter 9: Logic Gates Round 2!
- The Truth About Physical Computing
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- Projects 9-1 and 9-2: ANDs and ORs Galore
- Written Instructions (Part 1)
- Written Instructions (Part 2)
- Written Instructions (Part 3)
- AND Gate
- Written Instructions
- Refresher: AND Logic Gate Schematic Symbol and Truth Table
- OR Gate
- Written Instructions
- Refresher: OR Logic Gate Schematic Symbol and Truth Table
- Project 9-3: NOT Gate with Transistors!
- Written Instructions (Beginning)
- Written Instructions (Remaining Circuit)
- WHAT. How in the Electric Universe Does This NOT Gate Work?!
- Refresher: NOT Logic Gate Schematic Symbol and Truth Table
- Concept Break: Electric Ground!
- Flashback to Voltage!
- Ground As a Connection to Earth?
- Schematic Symbol for Ground
- Logic Gates: The More, the Merrier!
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- Project 9-4: NOT Another Logic Gate! (Yes!)
- NAND Gate
- Refresher: NAND Logic Gate Schematic Symbol and Truth Table
- NOR Gate
- Refresher: NOR Logic Gate Schematic Symbol and Truth Table
- Going Further!
- Summary
- Chapter 10: A Simple Computer!
- Cascading Logic Gates: A (Controlled) Electrical Waterfall!
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- Project 10-1: NOT It!
- Written Instructions
- Project 10-2: Our One and Only XOR Gate
- Uhhh, How Does This Give Us an XOR Gate?
- XOR Schematic Symbol
- NOT-ing the XOR
- How to Build a (Simple) Computer
- Boolean Algebra and Binary Addition
- Translating Decimal Numbers into Binary (and Back Again)
- One More Thing: Adding Binary Numbers!
- How Does This Translate to Computers??
- Bringing Bits Along for the Ride: Binary Adders!
- Single-Bit Adder
- 2-Bit Adder
- Adding It All Together: Single-Digit Binary Adder!
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- Written Instructions
- Where Do We Go from Here?
- I Hear You and I See (IC) You: An Easier and Faster Way to Build "Smart" Circuits
- Going Further: Logic Gate Circuits and Beyond!
- Further Exploration with Logic Gates!
- Beyond Logic Gates!
- Summary
- Appendix 1: Applied Project 1: Using a Multimeter!
- What Is a Multimeter?
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- Overview
- Measuring Voltage
- Project A1-1: Measure Battery Voltage!
- Measuring Current
- Measuring Resistance
- Project A1-2: Measure the Resistance of Your Skin!
- Measuring Continuity!
- Project A1-3: Does It Conduct?
- Summary
- Appendix 2: Applied Project 2: Ohm's Law!