Light Up Your First LED
Can you guide electricity around one complete road and turn it into light?
You will try: Trace a complete path and identify LED polarity.
BASIC ELECTRONICS
Build real circuits, make electricity visible, and grow from first light to your own invention.
YOUR MISSION PATH
Follow the main path in order. Optional challenges are separate and are not required for your certificate.
Can you guide electricity around one complete road and turn it into light?
You will try: Trace a complete path and identify LED polarity.
Can you create three visible brightness levels using only resistors?
You will try: Compare resistance without changing every part.
Can you make a light that needs two separate permissions before it turns on?
You will try: Use two controls as an AND rule.
Can you communicate without speaking by using short and long sounds?
You will try: Send a repeatable signal another person can decode.
What happens when two LEDs must share one complete road?
You will try: Trace two outputs in one continuous path.
Can each LED keep working even when the other branch is opened?
You will try: Compare independent branches with the previous series circuit.
Can invisible electrical energy create visible spinning motion?
You will try: Turn electricity into controlled motion using the separate AA supply.
Can a circuit notice darkness and switch on without anyone pressing a button?
You will try: Make an input control an output without your hand.
Can the same darkness sensor warn you with sound instead of light?
You will try: Reuse the same sensor rule with a different output.
Create a circuit that helps, warns, communicates or responds using at least one input or control and one output.
You will try: Reuse one working circuit to solve a small need.
Can one button make a warning that people can both see and hear?
You will try: Extend a main-path idea without making the course longer.
Can you make the same motor turn the opposite way without changing the motor?
You will try: Extend a main-path idea without making the course longer.
Can red, green and blue light combine to create new colours?
You will try: Extend a main-path idea without making the course longer.
JOURNEY FINISH