Day 1 of Mechatronics
Today was our introduction day, not only for the class but how it is structured and what was expected to be done every day. With an initial coverage of the syllabus and a discussion of what materials were required we went head first into our first assignment, soldering.
Soldering:
We initially were assigned to solder random components to a board to get some practice after some basic instruction. With past exposure to soldering and my welding background helped me pick it up relatively quickly which was a nice start to the session.
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| Figure 1. My board in which I soldered. |
Next we had to attach wires to replace the end of an AC adapter so we may use it to connect our bread board as well as our other end we were given. An AC adapter converts what comes out of an outlet (AC) into what the object can use to power (DC). Without the conversion it will simply not work. We cut, stripped and then shrink wrapped our wires and with some trial and error we completed our assignments.
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| Figure 2. My completed soldered wire of the AC Adapter. |
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| Figure 3. My completed end, crooked but functional. |
We were then taught about lighting up our LED's and how voltage is acceptable. With that led to the lesson about resistors to decrease voltage in a current so that the LED will light up isstead of bursting like some did. This took me a little while seeing as I kept mistaking the correct orientation in with we connect the LED's. With that we used my modified AC adapter to power the circuit.
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| Figure 4. My completed circuit lighting an LED |
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