START SMALL. MAKE IT GLOW.
Your first circuit. Your first glow.
Learn by running the board. Five steps and about ten minutes take you from an empty board to a glowing LED.
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Meet the power rails
The red rail at the top is the 5 V supply, VCC. The blue rail at the bottom is GND. Holes along each rail are connected. Components go between the rails; joining the rails directly creates a short circuit.
TRY IT NOW
Use Copper side to flip the board. Notice that the same layout is mirrored.
Embed this circuit
✓We will build a path from VCC, through the components, back to GND.