Weekly updates

Weekly Update Emails #

Week 1: Tuesday, 9/2/25 #

We are excited to start ME 30 with you! Welcome to the course. We’ll send an organizational email to the ME 30 class every Sunday evening. But this first week, we’re doing it on Tuesday.

Course website:

The course website is http://andnowforelectronics.com/. It serves as the required text for the course. It includes:

  1. The syllabus, which lists office hour info
  2. The calendar of topics, suggested readings, and project work due for each class meeting
  3. Notes and brief videos on key topics
  4. Kit component list and data sheets for all components

Electronics kit:

You’ll receive your electronics kit in the first class on 9/3. Bring it back for EVERY class and lab. You’ll return it at the end of the semester.

Labs:

No labs this first week. They will begin on Wednesday, 9/10.

Things due in Week 1:

Your first Canvas deliverable for an in-class exercise: Upload a video from Class #1 introducing yourself and showing us your LED-pushbutton circuit.

Learning goals for Week 1:

  • Build a working circuit prototype on a breadboard
  • Explain how current flows through the pins on a barrel jack
  • Start to make sense of voltage, current, resistance, and power, as they relate to a simple LED circuit

Resources for your learning for Week 1:

In ME 30 we’re aiming to provide a menu of resources to support your electronics learning. We hope you’ll explore and use what works best for you. Some of you may start with the videos we’ve embedded in the website pages; some of you may start by reading a textbook section; some of you may focus on the written website notes; and others may start with broad questions in office hours. Let us know if you’d like help developing a strategy for navigating the different options.

For Week 1, these are the resources we’re suggesting:

NOTE: Many of the website notes pages include mini-lecture videos.