Wednesday, January 29, 2014

Flashing LED Light

Circuit Diagram

Pictures

Parts List

  • 2 - 2N3906 PNP transistor 
  • 2 - electrolytic capacitors, 10 microFarad 
  • 2 - LED lights 
  • 2 - resistors, 680 Ohms 
  • 2 - resistors, 100 kOhms 


Videos


How It Works



Dual Transistor Tone Generator Project

Circuit Diagram

Dual Transistor Tone Generator  

Breadboard Layout

Dual Transistor Tone Generator - Breadboard Layout

Picture

Dual Transistor Tone Generator - Actual Picture

Videos

How It Works


Saturday, January 25, 2014

My First Blog 

This is my first blog on this blog site. My purpose is to have a placeholder for my electronics projects which I plan to build on my breadboard. I am an electronics enthusiast and am very interested in building simple projects, especially those that are easy to build and not so expensive. I welcome feedback from anyone who may come across my projects. 

My First Breadboard Project

I've been deciding what could I possibly build as my first electronics project for this blog. I've always been fascinated by electronics circuits that generate sound - siren generator, audio amplifier, sound effects generator kit, metronome, electronic organ, etc. I thought it will be a good start for me if I build a simple tone generator, one that requires minimum components. So I'll go ahead and build a simple two-transistor tone generator. There are many variations of this circuit so I just randomly selected this configuration and experimented on component values that produce sound or tone frequency that's pleasant to my ears.

What's Ahead?

To give you an idea on what I hope to come up with in my upcoming blogs, here is a breakdown my planned electronics projects:

  1. Dual transistor tone generator
  2. Astable multivibrator
  3. Siren sound generator
I got all that I need to build these electronics projects but I intend to illustrate them in the best possible way that I can with procedures, images, and videos with hopes that it may motivate you to experiment and build the projects yourself.There's nothing more exciting than seeing the working projects in a posted video and more satisfying than seeing the work of your own hands working as you hope it should.