Week 1 - Fri September 6

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

Week 2 - Fri September 13

• Review DIY switches
• Demo presentation - the 555 timer
• circuit schematics ctd
• Toy Organ on a breadboard
• solder demo

Week 3 - Fri September 20

• Presentations!
• multimeters and other tools
• what’s a microcontroller anyhow and why would I use one?
• Hello World of microcontrollers
• digital input and output

Week 4 - Fri September 27

• Presentations!
• reading discussion
• show your work
• analog input
• analog output
• Midterm intro

Week 5 - Fri October 4

• Presentations!
• discussion of reading
• Show your work
• servos and tone

Week 6 - Fri October 11

• Field Trip to Volvox Labs

Week 7 - Fri October 18

• Midterm Presentations!

Week 8 - Fri October 25

• Presentation by Tai
• Asynchronous Serial Communication

Week 9 - Fri November 1

• Presentation by Marco and Kimmy
• Serial communication results
• Synchronous communication examples (SPI, I2C)
• Lots of lights
• Vote if you are able

Week 10 - Fri November 8

• presentation by Silver
• Motors and things that move

Week 11 - Fri November 15

• CJ & Jon present
• Final project proposal discussion
• Bluetooth
  • Madgwick and orientation

Week 12 - Fri November 22

• BOM
• SD cards
  • datalogger
  • reading from files

Week 13 - Friday December 6

• Adam & Omar present
• Functional prototype of project due

Week 14 - Wednesday December 11

• Final project presentations and documentation due