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Generally, success in early projects plays a vital role in the field of electronics for engineering students career. Many JOIN OUR LOYA
students quit electronics due to fail in their first attempt. After a few failures, student keeps a misconception that these Name
projects working today might not work tomorrow. Thus, we suggest beginners start with following projects which will give
the output in your first attempt and gives motivation for your own work.Before you continue, you should know the
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working and usage of a breadboard. This article gives top 10 simple electronic circuits for beginners and mini projects
for engineering students, but not for final year projects. The following circuits come under basic and small categories.
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DC Lighting Circuit
A DC supply is used for a small LED that has two terminals namely anode and cathode. The anode is +ve and cathode
is ve. Here, a lamp is used as a load, that has two terminals such as positive and negative. The +ve terminals of the
lamp are connected to the anode terminal of the battery and the ve terminal of the battery is connected to the ve
terminal of the battery. A switch is connected in between wire to give a supply DC voltage to the LED bulb.
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Rain Alarm
The following rain circuit is used to give an alert when its going to rain. This circuit is used in homes to guard their
washed clothes and other things that are vulnerable to rain when they stay in the home most of the time for their work.
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The required components to build this circuit are probes. 10K and 330K resistors, BC548 and BC 558 transistors, 3V
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Whenever the rainwater comes in contact with the probe in the above circuit, then the current flows through the circuit to
enable the Q1 (NPN) transistor and also Q1 transistor makes Q2 transistor (PNP) to become active. Thus the Q2
transistor conducts and then the flow of current through the speaker generates a buzzer sound. Until the probe is in
touch with the water, this procedure replicates again and again. The oscillation circuit built in the above circuit that
changes the frequency of the tone, and thus tone can be changed.
When the voltage of battery is more than 9 volts, then the voltage on base-emitter terminals will be same. This keeps
both transistor and LED off. When the voltage of the battery reduces below 9V due to utilization, the base voltage of T1
transistor falls while its emitter voltage remains same since the C1 capacitor is fully charged.At this stage, base terminal
of the T1 transistor becomes +ve and turns ON. C1 capacitor discharges through the LED
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Multimeter Circuit
A multimeter is a an essential, simple and basic electrical circuit,that is used to measure voltage, resistance and current.
It is also used to measure DC as well as AC parameters. Multimeter includes a galvanometer that is connected in series
with a resistance. The Voltage across the circuit can be measured by placing the probes of the multimeter across the
circuit. The multimeter is mainly used for the continuity of the windings in a motor.
Multimeter Circuit
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From left to right in the circuit, the capacitor and the two transistors set the time and it takes to switch the LED ON or
OFF. By changing the time it takes to charge the capacitor to activate the timer.The IC 555 timer is used to determine
the time of the LED stays ON & OFF. It includes a difficult circuit inside, but since it is enclosed in the integrated
circuit.The two capacitors are located at the right side of the timer and these are required for the timer to work properly.
The last part is the LED and the resistor. The resistor is used to restrict the current on the LED. So, it wont damage
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When the infrared beam falls on the L14F1 photo transistor, it performs to keep the BC557 (PNP) out of conduction and
the buzzer will not generate the sound in this condition. When the infrared beam breaks, then the photo transistor turns
OFF, permitting the PNP transistor to perform and the buzzer sounds. Fix the photo transistor and infrared LED on the
reverse sides with correct position to make the buzzer silent. Adjust the variable resistor to set the biasing of the PNP
transistor.Here other kinds of photo transistors can also be used instead of LI4F1, but L14F1 is more sensitive.
LED Circuit
Light Emitting Diode is a small component that gives light. There is a lot of advantages by using LED because it is very
cheap, easy to use and we can easily understand whether the circuit is working or not by its indication.
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LED Circuit
Under the forward bias condition, the holes and electrons across the junction move back and forth. In that process, they
will get combine or otherwise eliminate one another out. After some time if an electron moves from n-type silicon to p-
type silicon, then that electron will get combined with a hole and it will disappear. It makes one complete atom and that
is more stable, so it will generate little amount of energy in the form of photons of light.
Under reverse bias condition, the positive power supply will draw away all the electrons present in the junction. And all
the holes will draw towards the negative terminal. So the junction is depleted with charge carriers and current will not
flow through it.
The anode is the long pin. This is the pin you connect to the most positive voltage. The cathode pin should connect to
the most negative voltage. They must be connected correctly for the LED to work.
This is Simple light sensitivity Metronome circuit using Transistors. Two kinds of transistors are used in this circuit,
namely transistor number 2N3904 and 2N3906 make an origin frequency circuit. Sound from a loudspeaker will
increase and is down by the frequency in the sound.LDR is used in this circuit LDR means Light Dependent Resistor
also we can call it as a photo resistor or photocell. LDR is a light controlled variable resistor.
If the incident light intensity increases, then the resistance of LDR will decrease. This phenomenon is called photo
conductivity. When lead light flasher comes to near LDR within a darkroom it receives the light, then the resistance of
LDR will go down. That will enhance or affect the frequency of the origin, frequency sound circuit. Continuously wood
keeps stroking the music by the frequency change in the circuit. Just look at the above circuit for other details.
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This chip can be worked with 5 volts DC. The received audio signals from the microphone are fed to the i/p pin2 of the
chip through the capacitor C1.Here, in the below circuit capacitor acts as a noise filter.
The modulated FM signal will be available at the pin4 (output pin) of the IC. Here, C3 capacitor & L1 Inductor shapes
the required LC circuit for building the oscillations. The transmitter frequency can be altered by regulating the capacitor
C3.
This is all about top 10 simple electronic circuits for beginners who are interested in designing their simple electronic
circuits . We hope these types of circuits will be helpful for beginners and also engineering students, Furthermore, any
queries regarding electrical and electronics projects for engineering students, please give your feedback by commenting
in the comment section below. Here is a question for you, what are active and passive components?
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