Chapter 19
Challenge 5: Examining the Hardware
You’ve crossed the halfway point! Congratulations. You now have four gizmos under your belt and you’re about ready to begin building the fifth. Hopefully at this point you’re starting to gain some confidence in your hardware skills. Patience is always a good idea when building gizmos, and so is carefully observing where components are inserted and where the wires go that are used to connect everything.
One of the most common errors we experience when building circuits is simply connecting something improperly. Remember the LED and its short leg and long leg? We can’t tell you how many times we’ve made the mistake of inserting an LED into the breadboard with the long leg (Anode) connected to the ...
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