IDEA DEVELOPMENT
To answer the prompt of this assignment, my goal was to create a simple circuit with an usual switch which would open or close the circuit while being creative with my idea. I spent sometime thinking of what i could possibly do that’d be unusual. I was finally able to come up with an idea- to use equipment readily available to me( a cup and teaspoon )
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Concept
The circuit is just a basic one made up of wires, a resistor, power source( arduino. board ), an LED, a bread board and a switch. The switch is the only unusual thing about the circuit. Since a switch is anything capable of opening or closing the circuit, i decided to go with a teaspoon and a cup of water. This was to make use of the fact that metals and water are good conductors of electricity. I had the wires ( one connecting to the anode metal strip of the LED and the other connected to the cathode strip ) connected to the spoon and one in the cup containing the water. When the spoon is placed in the cup containing the water, the circuit becomes a closed conducting path which allows the flow of charges to the LED and then it turns on.