Teach Yourself Electronics
A kit of components to accompany the
Electronics Club website.
This excellent site takes you through identification and use of the common components, leading on to a series of projects with progressive difficulty.
This kit will allow you to experiment with all of the following projects as you learn to translate circuit ideas to breadboard layouts for testing:
- Component & Continuity tester
- Flashing LED
- Simple electronic "lock"
- Adjustable timer
- Light sensitive alarm
- Christmas decoration
- Model railway signal
- Valentine heart
- Heart-shaped badge
- Model lighthouse
- Electronic dice
- Traffic light
- Quiz game
- Dummy alarm
You can find details of the projects at the
Electronics Club website where you can also learn how to use a breadboard.
Use the included breadboard to test the circuits, leaving your components available for re-use. Then, if you find a circuit that you want to keep, Bitsbox can provide stripboard, and any other parts you may need to complete the job.
Some example breadboard layouts to get you started:
Full Kit Contents:
- Resistors - 10 of each of the following, all 1/2W 5%:
- 1k, 10k, 100k, 1M, 2k2, 22k, 220k, 270R, 270k, 330R, 3k3, 33k, 390R, 470R, 47k, 470k, 560R, 680R.
- Preset Potentiometers - 1 of each of the following:
- Capacitors
- 4x 10nF
- 4x 100nF
- 4x 1uF
- 4x 10uF
- 2x 220uF
- Optoelectronics
- 10x Red 5mm LEDs
- 5x Yellow 5mm LEDs
- 5x Green 5mm LEDs
- 1x Ultrabright Blue LED
- 1x 6V MES Filament Lamp
- 1x MES lamp holder
- Sensors & Transducers
- 1x Light Dependent Resistor (LDR)
- 1x Piezo Sounder with Built-in Oscillator (bleeper)
- Semiconductors
- 5x NE555 timer/oscillator ICs
- 1x 4017 - Decade Counter Driver
- 1x 4060 - 12-Stage Ripple Counter Osc.
- 2x BC108 Transistors
- 10x 1N4148 Diodes
- 4x 1N4001 Diodes
- Switches & Connectors
- 6x Momentary Push Buttons
- 1x Single Pole Miniature Toggle Switch
- 2x Magnetic Reed Switches
- 2x Reed Switch Magnets
- 2x Miniature Crocodile Clips
- 2x PP3 Battery Connector Clips
- Misc Hardware
- 11x 1m lengths of single-core wire in various colours
- 1x PP3 9V Battery
- 1x Premium quality prototyping solderless breadboard 80x60
- PLUS Compartment Storage Box with close fitting, hinged lid.
