Week 2 - Monday September 11 & Wednesday September 13
Monday
- Interaction
- the breadboard
- circuit schematics
- ICs & the 555 timer
- Asatble, monstable, bistable
- The APC on a breadboard
- Read
- Make (for class on Wed)
- Build the rest of your Atari Punk Console. If you have access to different resistors, capacitors, or variable resistors, try using them in the circuit to generate different sounds.
- Watch
Wednesday
- Reading a datasheet
- Experimenting with different sensors in the circuit
- how the 555 works
- solder demo
- Watch
- Read
- Take the online training and quiz to use the soldering irons in the IDM Design Lab
- Make
- Solder your circuit onto a perfboard. Put it inside an enclosure of some kind. Document this and put it on your blog. Why did you choose this enclosure? did you make any modifications to the circuit? What were they? Bonus - experiment with a plain old 555 timer (ask me!) and build one of the basic monstable or astable circuits from the Forrest Mims 555 book