
12 Make: Robotic Arms
the wires are firmly attached. (I highly recommend, as a practice, using a
red wire for the positive side of the adapter and a black or brown wire for the
negative side, but the color technically doesn’t matter.)
STEP 2
Plug the red (positive) wire attached to the barrel jack adapter into the
bottom of the positive rail on your breadboard (the red row) and the black
or brown (negative) wire into the bottom of the ground rail (the blue row)
(Figure
1-18
). (These wires will be necessary for every circuit we build
throughout this book, so be sure to connect them to your breadboard for
every project. The power supply wires ar ...