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1) Buzzer Button Circuit

What is it?
Electric circuits are everywhere; they power all sorts of
things: TVs, phones, blenders, dolls and the lights in
this room.
The most basic circuit consists only of two things: a
power supply and an output device. These need to be
connected in such a way that the current flowing
through the output device produces an effect: light,
sound motion or something else

How to make it?

Components: buzzer, Arduino
power supply, wire
Step 1: connect the +5V Ardunio
pin into the red breadboard rail
and the GND Arduino pin into
the blue breadboard rail.
Step 2: Place the buzzer into the
breadboard, note that the long
leg is the (+) terminal.
Step 3: Connect the (+) terminal
to the red (+) rail on the
breadboard. Then connect the () terminal to the (-) rail on the
breadboard. (See picture right)

Terminal (-)

(+) Terminal

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Modifying the circuit

Most electronic applications are not intended to run 24/7. Our buzzer is similar to a doorbell in many
ways and should really have an on/off button.

Adding a Push button:

Please note the following all output devices such as an LED have (+) and (-)
terminals. When you connect a number of output devices together, the (+)
of one device plugs into the (-) of the other, the same ways as AA batteries
are connected together.
Step 1: connect the +5V Ardunio pin into the red breadboard rail and the
GND Arduino pin into the blue breadboard rail.
Step 2: Connect the button to the red rail of the breadboard as shown
below
Step 3: Connect the other end of the button to the (+) terminal of the
buzzer (refer to the button component card)
Step 4: Connect the (-) terminal of the buzzer to the (+) terminal of the
LED
Step 5: Connect the (-)
terminal of the LED into the
blue rail of the Breadboard.

Did you know?

The most unusual thing
about the circuit on the
right is that the LED is being
used without a resistor.
Resistors are necessary to
reduce the current which
would otherwise burn out
the LED. However in this
case the buzzer has an
internal resistance of
roughly 200 which is
enough to reduce the
current.

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