PracticalTheExpandedToolbox/Lab3

Introduction

Circuits can be made in many different ways:

• breadboard
• dead bug style
• wire wrapping

• prototype board (e.g. perfboard or stripboard)
• volumetric circuits
• Etching a Printed Circuit Board (PCB).

There are still other ways of making circuits, for example using the vinyl cutter to cut copper traces, using conductive fabric, etc. A nice overview of other alternative methods you can find at the great website of KobaKant: How To Get What You Want. Besides a lot of other interesting stuff (browse through it!!) the traces making sections you can find here: Kobakant section on Traces.

It is even possible to (almost) entirely knit your circuit: The Knitted Radio, Drapery FM.

In this lab you will be making a circuit with your preferred method with exception of the breadboard. The circuit presented here is a touch sensitive noise making circuit.

Assignment

Choose a desired method to make the circuit and make it (work)! Try out different resistor values!