Phys Comp Week 1

Week 1

So i had a bit of a difficult time doing my first lab. First of all, the nyu computer store jipped me with my toolkit which i didn’t really appreciate. Thankfully, whatever i was missing, i could find at the itp workshop. I had fun soldering, wasn’t too hard, although i did burn myself once or twice. I ended up wasting about three voltage regulators. Well the first one was the wrong voltage which is completely my fault. I ended up blowing out my adaptor plug that powers my breadboard. Thankfully, the power connector was not harmed. As soon as i realised my folly, i quickly changed the regulator after continuously burning my fingers and got myself a new adaptor. The regulator actually got so hot that it started melting some of my other components especially the hot glue i had just used. The first mishap ended up somehow destroying my second regulator. Then Todd graciously got me another regulator which kept unfortunately kept faulting. In the end, after everything cooled down, i ended up just chucking the regulator and doing the project without it. After that, the lab went pretty smoothly.

~ by stellakim on September 12, 2007.