ktrv
Newbie level 2
Hi guys,
I just started getting into the hobby, and I'm a complete and total noob. Please excuse my ignorance! I hope this is the right place to put this question.
Anyway, I was looking at someone building his own replica of the infamous alarm clock "bomb" brought to school by Ahmed Mohamed. Turns out it didn't actually require any building. But I was looking at the insides of this alarm clock, and I wondered: what is this ribbon cable doing?
I'm thinking that each individual wire inside the ribbon cable is running into a corresponding one of the pathways I have an arrow pointing to. If you press a button on the first board, a circuit is completed (depending on the button), and one(?) of the pathways on the main board gets current through one of the wires in the cable.
Am I completely off track? If not, could you actually manually run power to each pathway at the interface between ribbon cable and circuit board, one by one, and simulate pressing buttons?
Thanks for reading, and my apologies if this is a really dumb question.
I just started getting into the hobby, and I'm a complete and total noob. Please excuse my ignorance! I hope this is the right place to put this question.
Anyway, I was looking at someone building his own replica of the infamous alarm clock "bomb" brought to school by Ahmed Mohamed. Turns out it didn't actually require any building. But I was looking at the insides of this alarm clock, and I wondered: what is this ribbon cable doing?
I'm thinking that each individual wire inside the ribbon cable is running into a corresponding one of the pathways I have an arrow pointing to. If you press a button on the first board, a circuit is completed (depending on the button), and one(?) of the pathways on the main board gets current through one of the wires in the cable.
Am I completely off track? If not, could you actually manually run power to each pathway at the interface between ribbon cable and circuit board, one by one, and simulate pressing buttons?
Thanks for reading, and my apologies if this is a really dumb question.