Basic Electronics
Description:
Students take their first step into electronics by exploring electricity, electronic components, motors, switches, and simple control circuits.
Through experiments and mini-projects, students discover how individual components behave and gradually learn how multiple components can be combined to create useful circuits.
The course also introduces simple logic and decision-making using AND, OR, NOT, and combined logic circuits before students encounter programming.
Learning Objectives
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
- Recognize common electronic components and explain their basic purpose.
- Understand the idea of a simple electrical circuit and current path.
- Identify basic component polarity where required.
- Connect LEDs, RGB LEDs, buzzers, and DC motors.
- Use resistors appropriately with electronic components.
- Control circuits using Push Buttons, Slider Switches, and ON/OFF Switches.
- Understand the difference between an input and an output.
- Control motor speed using a Potentiometer and Motor Driver.
- Understand the basic purpose of the L293 Motor Driver.
- Understand simple decision-making using AND, OR, and NOT logic.
- Combine multiple logic gates to create simple control conditions.
- Read and build simple circuit diagrams.
- Troubleshoot basic circuits when they do not work.
- Combine components creatively to build mini-projects.