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Explore LED polarity and current with a battery, a resistor and a voltmeter.
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Explore LED polarity and current with a battery, a resistor and a voltmeter.
DC · LED · VoltmeterCompare a generated signal with the filtered output on two oscilloscope channels.
Generator · Capacitor · DSOToggle two inputs and watch a powered 74HC08 decide when to light the LED.
74HC08 · Switches · LEDUse four binary switches and a CD4511 to drive a seven-segment display.
CD4511 · BCD · 7-segmentToggle A and B. The output is HIGH only when both inputs are LOW.
74HC02Add two bits. Sum is XOR and Carry is AND.
74HC86 · 74HC08Add A, B and carry-in. Compare Sum and Carry with all eight input combinations.
74HC86 · 74HC08 · 74HC32Subtract B from A. Observe Difference and Borrow.
74HC86 · 74HC04 · 74HC08Subtract B and borrow-in from A. Test all eight input combinations.
74HC86 · 74HC04 · 74HC08 · 74HC32Add two four-bit operands and carry-in. Bit 0 is the least significant bit.
74HC283Compare binary inputs with Gray outputs; adjacent binary bits are XORed.
74HC86Convert Gray code to binary with a cumulative XOR chain.
74HC86Select A is the low bit and B is the high bit. Select one of four data inputs. 74153 is a multiplexer, not a register.
74HC153 / 74153Select exactly one output using a two-bit binary input.
74HC04 · 74HC08Set exactly one input HIGH. This is a one-hot encoder, not a priority encoder.
74HC32Build eight minterms using inverters and cascaded two-input AND gates. A is the least significant input bit.
7404 · 7408Enable permits Set and Reset. Reset starts HIGH to initialize Q. Never set both Set and Reset HIGH.
7404 · 7408 · 7400A rising Clock edge captures both data inputs. Reset clears both outputs asynchronously.
74HC74 / 7474Turn Clock ON then OFF for one falling-edge count. Reset clears the JK stages; Q feeds the next stage clock.
74HC73 / 7473 · 7400Choose Open in the playground to import a .json or .breadcircuit.json project. Review it before replacing your current circuit.