July 11, 2013, Day 4:

Zulficar Habib

Middle School math teacher in East New York, Brooklyn. He has been teaching in Brooklyn for the past six years.

Today we did some exciting activities. We began the day by using potentiometer to control the brightness of LEDs. We investigated charge/discharge times of capacitors in resistor-capacitor circuits by using the Rctime command in PBasic. This allowed us to measure analog changes in resistive sensors. We also worked with a transistor (BJT) to control current in a circuit. Finally, we created circuitry containing multiple ICs, including a digital potentiometer and a BJT.

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