This lab introduced us to the concept of breadboards, wiring, and switches. Coming from a mechanical engineering background, I was already somewhat used to wiring stuff up but in the most rudimentary fashion. It's always a fun time when you wire your projects up and everything lights up. It's like code in a sense except it's never a semi colon you're missing but a loose wire.
Sometimes you gotta make sure your multimeter works and thats just what i did.
By touching the 2 ends together I was able to verify that it worked!
Figure 1: Continuity test with the multimeter.
After connecting the DC Power supply to my system, I began to wire up a simple LED circuit to test that everything was functional.
Figure 2: A Simple LED circuit
I started by creating a very simple circuit to demonstrate the LED working. With some button presses I was able to send a message using morse code!
Figure 3: Toggling the Switch
I wanted to experiment with switches and so I began to wire up my circuit to feature 3 toggles. What I wanted to do was place my switches in series so that by switching all the toggles to the on position would lead to the led being on.
I built out the system and then tried out two different configurations
Here I wired everything up in series which meant you had to toggle all 3 switches before the LEDs turn on.