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Week 1

Jan 26

• Overview of course (Thomas - 75 min)
  • Review Syllabus
  • Hand out student kits
  • Review how to measure resistance and voltage with a mulimeter
  • Review resistor color codes
  • Review soldering
• Tie up loose ends with robotics(Rhine - 15 min)
  • Winners of the egg hunt
  • Turning in materials

Jan 27/28

• Hand out learn to solder kits (only to students who have completed the quiz)
• Overview of fab process (Thomas - 30 min)
• Intro to Eagle - Creating schematics (Rhine 50 mins)

Jan 29/Feb 2 (1/2 C day)

• Review laying out boards in Eagle

Week 2

Feb 3/4

• Divide into three groups
  • Drill - Learn drill safety and drill the Tingler boards for your group
  • Tools - Learn power tool safety and learn where components are stored
  • Eagle - Review how to get from the board layout to a coper sheet ready to etch

Feb 5/6

• Finish fabricating tingler board (Drill and iron on mask)
• Check in with ATDF teams
• Answer questions on Eagle

Week 3

Feb 9/10

• Check HW (Ch 3 notes and questions, board layouts in Eagle and populated Tingler board)
• Review concepts from chapter 3 and answer questions
• Show how to breadboard and have them breadboard the first circuit from Lab # 3
• Review how to use the multimeter to make measurements
• Assign Homework - Breadboard circuits for Lab 3

Feb 11/12

• Lab 3 - Basic Circuit Measurements
• Assign Ch 4 reading and some questions

Week 4 Feb 23 - 27

• Chapters 4 & 5: Series & Parallel Circuuits
• Smartboard notes from Feb 23-24
• Intro to Chapter 6: Networks
• Quiz 1 - Simple Series/Parallel Circuits

Week 5 March 2-6

• Chapter 6: Parallel-Series Circuit Networks & Applications
• Chapter 6 Lecture Notes (full size)
• Finding equivalent (total) resistance
• Using Rt, Ohm's Law, KCL, and KVL to solve simple parallel-series networks
• Unloaded & loaded voltage dividers
• Wheatstone Bridge
• Thevenin/Norton Equivalent
• Superposition Principle

Week 5 March 9-13

• Intro Lab 4 - Sensor Circuits
• Intro to LEDs (voltage, current, etc.)
• Intro to transistors
• 30 minutes each day for ATDF group work

Week 5 March 16 - 20

• Intro to Laser Cutter
• Intro to relays
• 45 minutes each day for ATDF group work
• Using Low Power circuits to drive "power hungry devices"

Key topics/Assignments left to cover (in order)

• Lab 4 - Sensor Circuits
• Notes/Questions on Ch 6
• Quiz 2 - Parallel/Series Combinations
• Chapter 9 - Capacitors : Notes/Questions
• Lab 5 - Capacitor Charge/Discharge
• Lab 6 - 555 timers/Oscilliscope watching charge/discharge cycles
• Notes/Questions on PWM
• Lab 7 - Advanced 555 Timers (PWM)
• Final Exam