Background
There
are many complex components that were used in this project.
All of the components used were very important to the final design of
this project. This project incorporated a vast number of materials including
microphones, scrap metal, bread boards, the BOE system with the BS2 chip
and
many other electrical components such as the LM386 and ADC0831 chips, potentiometers
and the PNP and NPN
transistors.
Transistors are used to switch on and
off the flow of
current. Transistors are
semiconductors, with three leads. Each lead has a purpose, there is a collector
lead, emitter lead, and base lead. There are two different types of transistors,
the PNP type and the NPN type. With a transistor, a little bit of
current at the base will allow lot of current to flow from the collector to
the emitter.