Left to his own devices…

I worked on this week’s P Comp assignment with Emily, and we learned that electricity can be dangerous if you aren’t careful with it. Apparently I messed up the placement of my power regulator on my breadboard, and as a consequence, soon after I connected the 12 V power supply to the board, I smelled something burning. I disconnected the power supply and then instinctively grabbed the power regulator, since it was still melting my breadboard. YeeeeOOOOOOOUCH! The tip of my right index finger was scorched like a piece of overcooked bacon.

Here we are measuring the voltage on a LED:

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Here we are measuring the voltage with the LED connected to a potentiometer:



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Here we are testing voltage in a series:



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I guess I learned the lesson that Frankenstein’s Monster left for us all: “FIRE BAD! FIRE BURNS!”

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