assignments
due Tue Sep 6
getting started
- Tell us about your computer and tech background. What sort of computer do you have (if any)?
(Submit this and all homework on the class website - I'll do a demo on Tuesday.)
- Get the SIK (Sparkfun Inventor's Kit) from the bookstore or online.
- Read the beginning of the Redboard Hookup Guide and install the Arduino software that it describes if you can. (If not, ask questions in class Tuesday.)
- Come to class Tuesday as ready as you can to do the first "Blinking an LED" lab in the Inventor's Guide.
due Tue Sep 20
first two labs
- At this point you've done two labs: the blinking LED and the potentiometer.
- Tell me how that went, what worked, what didn't work, what was easy, and what was hard.
- Here is the circuit for the LED lab :
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due Tue Oct 18
midterm writeup
- For one of your two graded assignments, choose anything that we've done and write it up as a short paper.
- Choose a project that suits your experience level : it can be a circuit and code from the kit, or a variation of either the circuit or code from class, or something you worked up on your own.
- Explain what's going on in the circuit (voltage, current, arduino inputs and outputs) and in the code (variables, timing, etc.)
- Include any images, pictures, screenshots, or sketches as you see fit.
- The whole thing should be comparable to something like a three page or so paper.
- Grading will be based on
- Evidence that you understand what's going on.
- Evidence of some time spent on the project.
- Technical expertise and creativity. (Not required, but brownie points if you go that way.)
- Clarity of expression and thoroughness.
- You may get assistance from other classmates and/or Logan. If so, and as always, quote your sources so that's it's clear what is your own work.
- If you would like an extension, ask and it will likely be granted.
- If you have questions, ask.
due Tue Nov 22
Nov lab & project proposal
- Write up one of the last three labs. (See the Nov 1 notes.)
- Describe what you're doing for your final project.
due Tue Dec 6
project presentations
- Come to the last class ready to show your project.
due Fri Dec 9
project writeup
- Submit a paper describing your final project :
- What is the circuit? What are its voltages and power?
- What's going on in the code do?
- Include a bibliography.
- Described how it all came together: what was easy, what was hard.
term grade
- a place for Jim to give comments and an overall grade
