hi! can someone help me with transferring this drawing to real life? 
i can't figure out how to make most of those connections - any help (and pictures) would be appreciated!
max
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Please provide more details about what you're trying to accomplish. Other than the horrible superimposed yellow wires of the yellow LED and buzzer it seems quite clear already from the fritzy how you should make these connection.
While fritzing is mostly garbage...
This one doesnt seem too bad..
in fact 90% of the connections just connect to power & ground?
All yellow lines go to an I/O pin on the Arduino...
What exactly arent you clear about?
- I would also never recommend using a 9v rectangle battery like that one.. they are junk.
xl97:
While fritzing is mostly garbage...This one doesnt seem too bad..
in fact 90% of the connections just connect to power & ground?
All yellow lines go to an I/O pin on the Arduino...
What exactly arent you clear about?
- I would also never recommend using a 9v rectangle battery like that one.. they are junk.
i think the placement of transistors is confusing me. how to practically place them on my breadboard based on this diagram. i'm new to arduino (clearly) and struggling with this. thank you for your help!
Please learn to draw a conventional schematic. Fritzing idiot diagrams are a complete waste of time.
Component values are not shown as numbers, the polarity of parts isn't clear, power and ground aren't clear (see below), etc., etc., etc.
How is power supposed to get from the top to the bottom of the breadboard?
Finally the posted idiot diagram has a fatal error, showing the battery + and - connected to the same breadboard trace, for a nice short circuit!
jremington:
Please learn to draw a conventional schematic. Fritzing idiot diagrams are a complete waste of time.Component values are not shown as numbers, the polarity of parts isn't clear, power and ground aren't clear (see below), etc., etc., etc.
How is power supposed to get from the top to the bottom of the breadboard?
Finally the posted idiot diagram has a fatal error, showing the battery + and - connected to the same breadboard trace, for a nice short circuit!
agreed on both last 2 points! it's someone else's diagram, not mine. and i'm ignoring those 2 items but want to use the button/light/buzzer/switch functionality of the project - trying to make an interactive activity board for my toddler
max90069:
i think the placement of transistors is confusing me.
There are no transistors on that diagram.
jremington:
How is power supposed to get from the top to the bottom of the breadboard?
Well, with the short it won't but looking past that the top power bus on the breadboard is 9 V, which is used to power the Uno, which provides 3.3 V to the bottom power bus on the breadboard. Of course that would be more obvious with a schematic. This assumes max90069 isn't using one of the breadboards with the break in the buses halfway across but the breadboard in the fritzy is not of that type since the red and blue lines are continuous.
pert:
There are no transistors on that diagram.
Well, with the short it won't but looking past that the top power bus on the breadboard is 9 V, which is used to power the Uno, which provides 3.3 V to the bottom power bus on the breadboard. Of course that would be more obvious with a schematic. This assumes max90069 isn't using one of the breadboards with the break in the buses halfway across but the breadboard in the fritzy is not of that type since the red and blue lines are continuous.
i meant resistors
it's someone else's diagram, not mine. and i'm ignoring those 2 items but want to use the button/light/buzzer/switch functionality of the project
Then perhaps you appreciate the problem.
That diagram is an awful place to start. Google "arduino buzzer" (and similar for switches & LEDs) for many, many other, more clear examples. It helps to click on "images" then look for a clear diagram. Here is an example (which, by the way, shows you that Fritzing can be used to produce a reasonable schematic diagram).
By the way: avoid Instructables. Most of them are crap, produced by people who don't know what they are doing, and some can even lead to the destruction of your Arduino.
While I hate to promote more fritzies, does this help understanding with how to deal with the resistors on a breadboard? This is informational only, pins are not correct.
Right click on the image and use “open in new window/tab” to see the original. I lost the link for how to imbed the original...
xl97:
While fritzing is mostly garbage...This one doesnt seem too bad..
Give them an inch, they will take a mile.
Maybe move the little blue toque up a bit higher on you head 
thank you all for your advice!
larryd:
Give them an inch, they will take a mile.Maybe move the little blue toque up a bit higher on you head
I didnt even notice the power being on the same rail! LOL
And I just 'assumed' there was some sort of jumper to feed the bottom rails.
Other than that.. I just took a quick look at the 'connections' as it pertained to the components.. (seemed most of us 'could' understand it.. even though it was fritzing!)
avr_fred:
does this help understanding with how to deal with the resistors on a breadboard?
See, I think that's the appropriate usage of Fritzing. A way to document a breadboard setup, rather than an alternative to a schematic. Providing someone an overview of how breadboards work followed by a clear diagram of a basic breadboarded circuit is the fastest possible way to teach someone how to use them. A proper schematic and words alone would be far inferior for that purpose. It's often very difficult to tell exactly which hole on a breadboard a component is inserted into with a photo but it's easy when looking at a reasonably well done fritzy.
Hi,
Beginning you schematic like this helps, gnd across the bottom of the page and in this case 5Vdc across the top.
Just a suggestion, it will make life easier, especially if you use pen/pencil and paper and post a picture.
Tom...