BUILDING THE CIRCUITS
The fastest way to put a circuit together is on BREADBOARD. The
cheapest and best bread-board has power-rails and sets of
"tie-points" or "holes" as shown in this photo:
Connect the components with hook-up wire (called jumpers) by stripping the ends to
expose the wire at both ends. Or you can use 0.5mm tinned copper
wire (make sure the jumpers do not touch each other).
Do not cut the leads of the components as you may want long leads on
another project.
Neatness is not important. The important thing is to
build as many circuits as possible as each one will help you
understand how the 555 works and how the external circuitry modifies
the signal to produce the resulting effect. There is a
point-to-learn in every circuit.
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