Electronics Club Circuits Workshop

In September 2023 I collaborated with John Hewes at the Electronics Club to create an electronics experience for visitors to the South East London Meccano Club Meccano Show.

The goal was to give visitors a practical introduction to electronics, offering them a complete kit of parts that they could use to build some simple — but interesting — circuits, either at the show or at home.

The Circuits Workshop in progress at the Meccano Show

The instruction sheets are laid out to make for easy reading, and start out by asking visitors to build a circuit for a flashing LED on breadboard. Visitors can then continue to build upon this, creating circuits for level crossing lights, cat eyes, an alarm box light, a lighthouse and traffic lights. For those who want to know more, the final two sheets give a brief explanation of the components used and how the circuits work.

Parts list

Demonstration models

To demonstate three of the circuits I built Meccano models of a traffic light, lighthouse and cat, with space behind each to accomodate the breadboards.

The traffic light, lighthouse and cat demonstration models