| Week | Date | Lecture | Hands-on | What to study | Due dates |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 9/6 | Voltage, current, resistors, LEDs | Breadboard basics; Project 0 | Prototyping; Voltage and current; LEDs; Resistors | |
| 9/8 | Voltage dividers, voltage regulators, capacitors | Project 1 start | Series vs. parallel; Voltage regulators; Capacitors; Multimeters; Videos for P1 | P0 | |
| 2 | 9/13 | Voltage regulators, Kicad | Debug your voltage regulator | Voltage regulators; Videos for P1; Kicad resources | P1 proto |
| 9/15 | PCB design, power | Kicad Demo | PCB design; Kicad resources | ||
| 3 | 9/20 | More Kicad | Kicad practice/Q&A | Low power/high power | |
| 9/22 | Transistors as switches | Make a switch with a BJT | P1 PCB | ||
| 4 | 9/27 | DC motors, MOSFETs, P2 intro | Measure motors; Run a motor with a MOSFET | Motors; Low power/high power | |
| 9/29 | H-bridges | Start building an H-bridge | H-bridge motor driver; Intro and video for P2 | ||
| 5 | 10/4 | Soldering demo, more H-bridge details | More H-bridge work | H-bridge motor driver; Adafruit soldering guide | |
| 10/6 | Motor measurement | P2 proto | |||
| 6 | 10/11 | Debugging strategies, PCB fabrication, P2.5 intro | P1 PCB test | Solder components to your P1 PCB and bring to class | |
| 10/13 | Microcontrollers | Feather set-up | Microcontrollers; Feather hardware | P2 PCB | |
| 7 | 10/18 | Digital and analog I/O hardware | Feather challenges | Feather programming | |
| 10/20 | PWM for motor control | Feather challenges, cont’d | Feather programming | ||
| 8 | 10/25 | P2.5 testing; P3 intro | P2.5 - Due at noon in class | ||
| 10/27 | Stepper motors | P2 PCB test; P3 learning goals | |||
| 9 | 11/1 | I2C, SPI, serial; State machines | P3 proto due in class | ||
| 11/3 | Discriminatory design | Discriminatory design | Pre-class reading | ||
| 10 | 11/8 | No class (Friday schedule) | |||
| 11/10 | P3 demo day | P3 final | |||
| 11 | 11/15 | Raspberry Pi intro | Booting the Raspberry Pi | Raspberry Pi setup; Raspberry Pi programming | |
| 11/17 | Project 4 intro | P4 learning goals; Pi challenges | Raspberry Pi challenges | Raspberry Pi setup check on Canvas | |
| 12 | 11/22 | Oscilloscopes; more RPi setup | P4 partners (if choosing your own) | ||
| 11/24 | No class (Thanksgiving) | ||||
| 13 | 11/29 | How does the internet work? | P4 planning | Internet; Servers and clients | |
| 12/1 | Project management, BOMs | P4 Q & A | |||
| 14 | 12/6 | P4 demo day | P4 final | ||
| 12/8 | Last class, jobs talk | ||||
| (15) | 12/13 | ||||
| 12/15 | (Finals start) | P5 showcase, 12-2pm |
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