My knowledge of the basic components of P-Comp is pretty decent. Over the past 2 years I have been building tube amplifier kits, so I can solder well, have handled resistors, capacitors, potentiometers, voltage regulators, and more. What building a kit amplifier does not teach you are the general rules and physics of electricity or how to properly read a schematic. Generally I am also not fantastic with math, so I will be paying extra attention to the very important formulas I need to properly design circuits. I will be adding them at the end of this entry for ease of access and review for myself.

My hope for P-Comp is that I will come out with more confidence for creating my own circuits and be able to move on to more advanced object design that I then can integrate electronics into.

The readings on voltage, current and resistance were very helpful and partially felt like a review to me. Currently I do not have many questions on it. Power supplies reading came in handy with the labs, as myself and a friend picked out one from the junk shelf and used that to power our circuits. The components reading was what I was most familiar with, but it will take a lot of time for me to memorize some of the less common schematic logos.

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Power supply from the junk shelf.

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I messed up here and grabbed a 220k value resistor, which led to an hour of trouble shooting and measuring voltages. Next time I will check the resistor value via the bands first.

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Got it to light up once I had the correct resistor. For this circuit, I worked with my friend Nikolai, and we both were trouble shooting it.

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Switch and LED in parallel!

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Pot controlled LED.

Voltage is a measure of the difference in electrical potential energy between two points in a circuit. It is measured in Volts.

Current is a measure of the magnitude of the flow of electrons through a particular point in a circuit. It is measured in Amperes, or Amps.

Resistance is a measure of a material’s ability to oppose the flow of electricity. It is measured in Ohms.

Volts = Amps x Ohms

or

V = I x R