Week 1 - Wed September 6

• Class introductions
• Ritual reading of the syllabus
• Crash course on electricity and electronics

Week 2 - Monday September 11 & Wednesday September 13

• Electricity basics
• Some notes about parts
• your first build- Atari punk console

Week 3 - Monday September 18 & Wednesday September 20

• buttons and switches
• multimeters and other tools

Week 4 - Monday September 25 & Wednesday September 27

• Let’s see those switches
• Hello World of microcontrollers
• digital input and output

Week 5 - Monday October 2 & Wed October 4

• Presentations!
• discussion of reading
• Show your work
• analog input and output
• Midterm intro

Week 6 - Tuesday October 10 & Wed October 11

• Presentations!
• show your work
• midterm check in
• silly scopes
• resistor ladders
• knock sensors

Week 7 - Monday October 16 & Wednesday October 18

• Serial Communication
• Midterm Presentations!
• Assignments
  • Take home quiz
  • Observation Project.

Week 8 - Monday October 23 & Wednesday October 25

• Presentations!
• Serial examples
• BLE and internal sensors
• Assignment for 10/30
  • Create a sketch in the program of your choice that communicates with your microcontroller. Post a video of this on your blog. What are you making?

Week 9 - Monday October 30 & Wednesday November 1

• Presentations!
• Serial communication results
• Lots of LEDs

Week 10 - Monday November 6 & Wednesday November 8

• presentations
• Motors and things that move

Week 11 - Monday November 13 & Wednesday November 15

• machine learning on the BLE33
• Final project proposals - Come up with a proposal for what you would like to do for a final project.

Week 12 - Monday November 20

• Final project pitches

Week 13 - Monday November 27 & Wednesday November 29

• What is a BOM?
• SD cards
  • datalogger
  • reading from files
• battery power
• network connections
• final project one on one meetings
• BOM due

Week 14 - Monday December 4 & Wednesday December 6

• final project workshop
• Functional prototype of project due

Week 15 - Monday December 11 & Wednesday December 13

• Triage
• Final project presentations and documentation due