{"id":368,"date":"2016-05-12T16:01:25","date_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/?p=368"},"modified":"2016-05-12T16:02:38","modified_gmt":"2016-05-12T23:02:38","slug":"how-to-use-electricity-the-basics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blastedscience.com\/how-to-use-electricity-the-basics\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Use Electricity: The Basics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"How<\/p>\n

How to Use Electricity is an educational series of posts designed to help teach you practical applications of electricity in DIY projects.<\/p>\n

If you read our last post<\/a> in this series, you will have read this paragraph:<\/p>\n

Learning about electricity can be overwhelming. The purpose of this series is to explain the fundamentals of electricity in a simple and practical way. Let’s get started.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But we don’t think we did a very good job. (“We” is the word “we” use when “we” want to spread the blame.) So we’re taking a step back.<\/p>\n

Our last tutorial was a basic introduction to a practical use of electricity, but in retrospect, that probably wasn’t the best way to begin a tutorial series. Anyone who\u2019s ever taken a high school physics class has a fairly solid understanding of electricity. So, with that fact in mind, we’re going to pretend you’re completely clueless and are going to start with explaining electricity at its most basic.<\/p>\n

What is Electricity?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Science aside, electricity is can be one of two things: either it charges your phone or it makes some massive sparks that will permanently ruin flint and steel for you.<\/p>\n

There are two broad categories of electricity: static and current.<\/p>\n

Static<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Static electricity is pretty cool, but we\u2019re not going to talk about it. Here’s a tutorial by Nighthawkinlight that explains how to make a static electricity generator.<\/p>\n