Introduction to

Electric Components
and
Best Practices
Solderless Breadboards
Breadboard Connections
Wiring Best Practices
Wiring Best Practices
• Colour code
• - : Black, blue, grey, white
• +: Red(ish)

• Appropriate wire lengths

• Component placement
LEDs
Resistors
Datasheets, datasheets, and datasheets
• Potentiometers
• Buttons
• Photodiodes
• RGB LEDs
• Internet searches
Virtually Impossible to Forget:
V=IR
Example
• Values from datasheets: •V=IR
• Power source: 12 V • 10 V = 0.02 A * R [Ohm]
• Forward voltage: 2 V
• Forward current = 20 mA
• R [Ohm] = 10 V / 0.02 A
• V = V_S – V_F • R = 500 Ohm
• V = 12 V – 2 V
• = 10 V
Schematics, the two styles
Curiosity?
• The Art of Electronics:
• Chapter 1: Foundations
• Course content -> Content -> Resources -> Last File
• Resistors in series and parallel
• Ohm’s Law
• Kirchhoff’s Current Law
• Doen’t matter where you put the resistor, why?
• Kirchhoff’s Voltage Law
• Complete Book:
• Microcontroller architecture
• Basically everything…
Workflow Tips
Necessities?

Development, Execution, and Analysis Communication? Transfer of Data?

• Development on your own • Ampy
laptop
• PuTTy
• Execution on the ESP32 with
MicroPython

• Analysis on your own laptop

What do I do?
• Guide: Getting Started with Huzzah 32
• Day 3 > Slides

• Easiest way to install is through Anaconda Prompt

• Basically only Ampy – so one command

• Workaround for ports: ampy –p COMx <OR> /dev/tty… run <file.py>

The Suggested Workflow?
• Think
• Sketch – Flowchart and/or pseudocode
• Code in Spyder
• Ampy put <file.py>
• Ampy ls
• Ampy run <file.py>
• Ampy get <result_file>
• Analyse on your own laptop