When the Radio Shack in New Haven closed we bought a bunch of kits for learning basic electronics. We have about 10 sets of kits 1 and 2. These have everything you need to do all the experiments from the Make: Electronics book
Most of the parts in these kits are reusable so the intention is that we can use them to teach classes on electronics for a fee to the public. For now we want to get familiar with the kits so we are doing a series of free sessions for members about learning electronics. We will have access to the kits and the experiment instructions. We will start at experiment 1 and work our way down the list together for an hour and a half. Then we will schedule a follow up session to do the next set of experiments. Over a number of sessions our goal will be to do every experiment in the book.
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Experiment 1: Taste the Power!
Experiment 2: Let’s Abuse a Battery!
Experiment 3: Your First Circuit
Experiment 4: Varying the Voltage
Experiment 5: Let’s Make a Battery
Experiment 6: Very Simple Switching
Experiment 7: Relay-Driven LEDs
Experiment 8: A Relay Oscillator
Experiment 9: Time and Capacitors
Experiment 10: Transistor Switching
Experiment 11: A Modular Project
Experiment 12: Joining Two Wires Together
Experiment 13: Broil an LED
Experiment 14: A Pulsing Glow
Experiment 15: Intrusion Alarm Revisited
Experiment 16: Emitting a Pulse
Experiment 17: Set Your Tone
Experiment 18: Reaction Timer
Experiment 19: Learning Logic
Experiment 20: A Powerful Combination
Experiment 21: Race to Place
Experiment 22: Flipping and Bouncing
Experiment 23: Nice Dice
Experiment 24: Intrusion Alarm Completed
Experiment 25: Magnetism
Experiment 26: Tabletop Power Generation
Experiment 27: Loudspeaker Destruction
Experiment 28: Making a Coil React
Experiment 29: Filtering Frequencies
Experiment 30: Fuzz
Experiment 31: One Radio, No Solder,No Power
Experiment 32: A Little Robot Cart
Experiment 33: Moving in Steps
Experiment 34: Hardware Meets Software
Experiment 35: Checking the Real World
Experiment 36: The Lock, Revisited
MakeHaven Main Space
The main makerspace and connected shops. This is located at 770 Chapel Street. Registered participants should ring the MakeHaven labeled doorbell. They will be directed down a long hallway, and down a set of stairs to our basement workshop.