Doing Big Boy Stuff
After deciding that I would use microswitches in my project I encountered an immediate problem that wouldn't let me use them without altering them. They didn't have any wire that would allow me to connect them to the breadboard or the Arduino. This forced me to ask Mr. Shappell how it would be possible for me to connect the microswitches if they didn't have wires. Without a pause, he already had the answer, which was soldering. Another student of his was also using microswitches on a similar project and so Mr. Shappell prescribed the same solution to me as he did to his other student. The great solution soldering was something I had never done before since I never owned a soldering iron, but that didn't squeeze the excitement I had to learn how to solder. Now of course because soldering can be quite dangerous if done by an inexperienced person Mr. Shappel went first and demonstrated how to solder the wires onto the microswitch. He started out by first 'cleaning...