Day 6: Finished LDR Circuit, More Microcontroller Experiments, and Began Hacking a Toy

Today, right as class started, I managed to finish my LDR project in just a few minutes.


Then I moved onto a few more tasks involving the microcontroller and some resistors. The first one was to simply turn on and off a christmas light, first with a 2N3904 transistor, and then with a TIP41, which allowed the light to glow more brightly.

After completing those two, I then basically had to replace the light with a motor to show that it can be done. 

From there, it got confusing. Trying to hack the remote to my toy robot wasn't very straightforward to me. The circuit is simple, but I have yet to figure out how to control it properly.