Day 8: 555 chip, Oscilloscopes and Potentiometers

Today we worked with the infamous 555 chip and used it to light an LED. The 555 pulses power through the circuit and the LED flashes on and off.

After that I connected it to a potentiometer and the frequency of the flashing either sped up until it seemed to be on 100% of the time or it slowed down until it was 0.

Then I worked on a packet on Oscilloscopes. These things show how pulses of electricity are transfered between the different parts of a circuit. I got it working off of the potentiometer which increased or decreased the frequency by increasing and decreasing the resistance of the circuit.This is my final set up for that packet which includes using the oscilloscope tool called a BNC plug.