{"id":152,"date":"2008-10-24T01:38:57","date_gmt":"2008-10-24T05:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=152"},"modified":"2008-10-24T01:38:57","modified_gmt":"2008-10-24T05:38:57","slug":"transis-tore-me-a-new-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/?p=152","title":{"rendered":"Transis-tore me a new one"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously frustrating.\u00a0 I understand them, and yet, they didn&#8217;t want to work.\u00a0 We wanted to use transistors to open &amp; close our electromagnet circuits, but when we sent a HIGH value from our digital pinout, no current was flowing into our electromagnets.\u00a0 We then tried plugging in a simple LED where the lightbulb or EM would&#8217;ve been, with a resistor of course, but to no avail.<\/p>\n<p>We switched breadboards, transistors (3 or 4!), all leads, pwoer supplies, power adaptors.\u00a0 Kate mentioned testing the digital pinout by running it through an LED to ground.\u00a0 So that&#8217;s first on our list when we get back to it.<\/p>\n<p>Transistors are the last piece of our midterm puzzle, so expect an update soon.\u00a0 I&#8217;ll upload some photos when we get it workin&#8217;.\u00a0 Hmm maybe I&#8217;ll H-Bridge it in the meantime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seriously frustrating.\u00a0 I understand them, and yet, they didn&#8217;t want to work.\u00a0 We wanted to use transistors to open &amp; close our electromagnet circuits, but when we sent a HIGH value from our digital pinout, no current was flowing into our electromagnets.\u00a0 We then tried plugging in a simple LED where the lightbulb or EM [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physical-computing","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":153,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152\/revisions\/153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mikelberman.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}