Week 2 - Friday September 13

THE PLAN

• Review DIY switches
• Demo presentation - the 555 timer
• circuit schematics ctd
  • Reading a datasheet
• Toy Organ on a breadboard
• solder demo
• Read due Septmber 20 before class starts
  • 555 Timer from Make Electronics - distributed in Slack
  • OPTIONAL - Working with Wire
  • OPTIONAL - How to use a breadboard
  • OPTIONAL- Forrest Mims Engineer Mini Notebook - the 555 IC
• Make due Septmber 20 before class starts
  • Build the rest of your Toy Organ with your partner. Take video of it working and post it to youtube/vimeo/nyu stream and embed it on your class journal
  • replace the switches on the breadboard with ones you have made. Docuemnt this and post it on your classs journal
  • Try different resistors, capacitors, or variable resistors in the circuit to generate different tones. Find anything you like?
  • Extra credit - build one of the basic monstable or astable circuits from the Forrest Mims 555 book and post it to your journal.
• Watch due Septmber 20 before class starts
  • Soldering Crash Course: Basic Techniques, Tips and Advice!
  • Colin’s Lab:Schematics