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