Building and controlling circuits with the cyber:bot board is a great way to learn about electricity, and to experiment with making your own inventions. Building experimental circuits to design your own projects is called prototyping, and it is a real-world engineering skill.
Before you start your cyber:bot prototyping, there are three important Reference pages you should have handy, especially if you have never built circuits on a breadboard before. Just click on each link and the page will open in a new tab or window.
The cyber:bot Board has a solderless breadboard mounted on it. The breadboard lets you connect common electronic components together to build your own circuits.
The cyber:bot's breadboard is surrounded on three sides by black sockets. These make it convenient to connect circuits on the breadboard to power, ground, and the Propeller I/O pins. There are also sockets to connect to a digital-to-analog converter signal from the Propeller chip, and to an analog-to-digital converter on the micro:bit.
Before you build circuits on the breadboard, let's review:
Links
[1] https://learn.parallax.com/support/reference/breadboard-basics
[2] https://learn.parallax.com/support/reference/schematic-symbols
[3] https://learn.parallax.com/support/reference/resistor-color-codes