Exploring the Interior of Technology

Exploring the Insides of a cellphone:

The Victim (LG cellphone) of my Dissection

I decided to explore the insides of a cellphone for my curiosity of looking at all the components that makes a cellphone work as well as how every component is connected together.

The component that is the first and easiest to identify is the battery. The battery is an LG Lithium Ion Battery with a 3.7 Volt.

Further taking apart the cellphone I found that it was not easy to identify the components especially without no prior knowledge to the components within a cellphone as well as what I learned in the first lecture.

Taking apart the cellphone even more until I could not take it a part anymore and still found it difficult to identify some of the components except for the circuit board which contains the antenna.

I realized that a cellphone was difficult to identify all of its components especially since none of the components looked like what I learned from the first lecture expect for some of the simple and easy to identify components. I researched more online about some of the components of a cellphone through a website. (http://www.howstuffworks.com/inside-cell-phone.htm)

Exploring the Insides of a Mini Bus Flashlight Key-Chain:

The Next Victim of Dissection 

 So maybe a cellphone was a bit more complicated than I thought of identifying some of the interior components. I decided to try a second attempt, but this time on a simpler object in which it was this mini bus flashlight key-chain.

First step of taking it apart by unscrewing the bottom of the bus key-chain.

Second step removing all of its components.

Two of the components found and easy to identify within the mini bus flashlight was the LED light and two batteries. I began playing around with LED light and the batteries. There was one thing that I found quite strange and that was that the LED light would not light up with only one battery.

By using two batteries on the LED light I was able to lit it up.