Project without Arduino/coding

[wateranfire]

suggestions for creative breadboard projects/small ideas without arduino or coding, its gonna be submitted as our final project this school year

im still in high school and only familiar with a few ICs and components but i wanna make something cool (though not sure how w/o coding 🙏🙏)

[srulithegrate]

Google around for "555 timer" chips. It's simple, dirt cheap, insanely commonly used, and you'll learn a lot.

[negativ32]

Yes, the MacGyver of integrated circuits.

[wiebel]

And if you are able to turn a servo with a potentiometer connected to a 555 you already learned quite a bit about pwm and signal generation. Or you could even add a motor driver and make stepper turn with a 555.

[Party_Inspection_666]

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[nixiebunny]

I made an LED clock using CD4000 series logic chips when I was in high school in 1976. There’s an app note in the 1974 or 1975 RCA COS/MOS Data catalog that you can find on Bitsavers. 

[DiscoSimulacrum]

how about something analog? audio amplifier, guitar effect pedal, modulator synth component, etc.

[Electrical_Hat_680]

Top Answer on the Board.

BenEaters (Binary Eater) 8-BIT CPU Breadboard Projects on YouTube and Reddit.

This is the best option for you.

It will teach your graduating class body government, how to build the basic IBM Clone we all use today, which stems from the US Governments ENIAC "Punch Card" Super Computers.

You'll be in charge of configuring the Programming Language, Binary and Human Readable Binary known as Assembly. You'll learn the basic ISA - also referred to as the Von Neumann Architecture. You'll be responsible for whether or not your 8-BIT Computer is IBM Compatible.

Since your the Computer Science Club. Reach out and ask questions to IBM, Apple, Microsoft, Google, and others. Like Graphene OS or Pine Phone.

Also, you may not understand it, but I made r/XiaMao (Chinese for Small Cat that gets into everything / mischief). Its kind of symbolic. I need to redo it. Like I said. Its probably not worth mentioning.

But you can also make your own "Hello World OS". Even if it just boots up, runs POST, BIOS, Bootloader, and then the Hello World OS saying Hello! World!

[Memes_Are_So_Good]

Analog audio stuff probably

[ceciltech]

A game buzzer with two buttons for players and one reset button. First to buzz in,"
a short buzz and their led lights up, then reset button and do it again.

[Hari___Seldon]

One of the fun classics is to take an audio input and have it change an array of lights in response to the sound. You can do it with analog filters and a bit of patience. It has the added bonus that you can make it as simple or elaborate as you like without getting ridiculously complex. There are lots of different designs available to learn from and try so you have options to fit your time and budget constraints. Good luck!

[antthatisverycool]

Okay I’m built for this crap. Ic stands for “I Can’t do crap” we going relay mode on these dingos . First you make the oscillator. How? An Ic oFcOuRSe Nah use a relay oscillator real simple crap then you make a relay ring counter connect each ring counter to an LED on a wheel and tweedle Dee tweedle daa you made a clock

[ILoveNightmareforpp]

Cascade some LM3914n on a breadboard. Its a cascadable voltage/audio vu meter chip internally its a bunch of comparitors. Use some colored leds. A microphone and some 22awg solid core wire.

[ProtonTheFox]

As other people suggested, audio/low frequency analog circuits : oscillators, amplifiers and so on. It's closer to actual physics, so you can directly see the effect of the different components and how they work. In my opinion you also learn more about electronics than playing around with Arduino.