Circuit Exploration: Hard wiring with clips:

Simple circuit with alligator cables, one light , one 62 amp transistor and battery

Exploring conductivity: snap, random jewelry piece, stripped phone cord (all worked)

Two lights – removed transistor and needed another battery

Soft Circuit:

Used conducting thread and conducting fabric (right), one light, one 62 amp transistor and battery (attached by alligator cables).

Soldering on a board: Robot Pin at the Mini Make Fair

The package: two lights, pre-fab board, two lights, pin, battery and battery holder

Wonky Eyed Robot

Soldering on a proto board (2):Noticed on reading our hand-out that I did not need to cross over the pins. Given the conductivity of the solder, I needed only to join them together. This reduces the bulk of the board.

Observations: After soldering, and checking with instructions downloaded, I noted that I didn’t need to cross the wire. The solder between the joints, and joining them was enough!

BreadBoard (1)

Creating a circuit - try #1. It worked.

Breadboard (2)After reading the instructions in the hand-out, I created a duplicate circuit.

Breadboard (3) – Adding a switchAfter experimenting with the three pinned stitch, I figured out that the center pin had to be connected to the positive, and either of the outside pins had to be connected to the negative. This allowed me to turn the light on and off.

Prepping the Pin:After experimenting with the switch, I soldered wires to the pins so that it could be used in a project.

Further Research:

Sewable LED lights:Found a tutorial for a project that included this diagram which suggests how to create sewable LEDs so that positive and negative are clearly illustrated once twisted.

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are needed to see this picture.

http://www.imagineourlife.com/2013/09/22/make-the-worlds-best-robot-costume/accessed September 26, 2013.

Parallel circuit instruction on the ‘make the worlds best robot costume’ site.