PartsNOTES

NOTES about electronic components used on the Wiki examples

PASSIVE (non-electronic ) PARTS

FLAT RIBBON CABLE

You can strip off sections from this to make cables you need.

RGB LED Brick

This has a large Red-Green-Blue LED on a small board with 4 pins. The "V" pin must be connected to +5V. Each of the 3 color LED pins must be connected to (Ground - LOW) to light up. Usually those 3 pins will be connected to Arduino Output Pins. To light the LEDs the Digital Out instruction must be set to LOW.

ACTIVE (Contain internal electronics ) PARTS

LCD DISPLAY 2x16

This can display 2 lines of 16 characters. It uses an I2C "I Squared C" interface with 4 connections: (Vcc +5 and Gnd) And (SDA , SCL)

Here's a quick Mixly test:

The I2C Pins are on the Arduino HERE:

BUZZER AND BEEPER

The BUZZER makes noise when it is connected to +5V. NOTE the (+) marking to +5V

The BEEPER is like a small speaker. You need to use a TONE command to send a signal to it.