Getting Started in Electronics - Episode 2 - Wire

 

This is episode 2 in our Getting Started in Electronics series. In this episode we cover some of the types of wire available.  When Enigmatic Electronics got started we were fortunate enough that one of our members had a kit of jumper wires made specifically for breadboards which helped a lot when building some of our circuits.  We were also fortunate enough that one of our members had been saving scrap wire for a while.  The first project we made using scrap wire was The Game Show Buzzer, and it took a LOT of wire.

We had money in the buttons and the relays, but most that wire was scrap.  Now that's what we call upcycling!

Getting Started in Electronics - Episode 1 - Scavenging for Parts

This is episode 1 in our Getting Started in Electronics series. In this
episode we cover scavenging for parts. There are many different ways to get parts cheap to start a hobby in Electronics. When Enigmatic Electronics started, we just gathered all the scrap electronics we had and started removing bits and pieces until we had a pretty sizable scavenge box full of old circuit boards.  During our first few circuit projects we dug through our box and removed some components to finish building these projects.

Here is the Zombie circuit we made scavenged parts

And the blinking LED 555 timer circuit we put together