This is a nice lab to control higher voltage circuits with arduino,,
what you have notice is that the transistor pins in the schematic design are mistaken the 2 and 3, so is better if you follow the picture of the circuit,,
For the second lab, we learn to use and Hbridge so we can control the movement direction of the DC motor, heres a video how it works:
I am so glad you documented this, this was very useful to build off of for your final project!