Mentor Hours 7

Yesterday I got to start working with the Snap Circuits. I simply sat down with the kit and its booklet and starting from experiment number one. I made several different circuits.

The circuits either made an LED or a small lightbulb light up, or it made different siren or laser type noises through the speaker. The Snap Circuits were extremely easy to use and build with. The booklet included pictures as well as short paragraphs that explained how or why something worked the way it did. The easy building made it easier for me to focus on the concept instead of the construction. It helped me understand why the bulb would only light up if I put a certain piece this way or that way, or how the speaker made different noises depending on how much current and resistance there was. I think playing with the Snap Circuits was really fun. It was kind of like electronic Legos. It was a nice way for my mentor to introduce me into electronics without making me use an actual circuit board at first.

Hours Earned: 2 hours

Total Hours: 14 hours