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Alex Hiam - Fall 2011 - 3 credits Designing and Building a Custom Handheld Embedded Device |
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The end goal of this tutorial will be a custom built handheld digital tool
consisting of a variety of sensors (e.g. temperature, humidity, voltage,
ultrasonic range, accelerometer, etc.), some sort of user input (i.e.
buttons or a joystick of some sort), and an LCD screen for easy display of
data. The real focus of this tutorial will not be on the end result, but rather the process that is required to accomplish it. I will work my way up from studying datasheets and selecting parts, to prototyping hardware on breadboard and writing software libraries for communicating with peripherals, to drafting schematics and designing the PCB layout, to the final fabrication of the board and soldering of components. I will clearly document my entire design and fabrication process. |
