91.548 Presentation Schedule

Here is the schedule for in-class student presentations. A week after each presentation is made, a web-based summary of the presentation is to be submitted. Those will be linked here.

Here is a quick look at the semester with topics for the first few weeks. The course is not completely planned at this point and I am open to suggestions for specific topics from you.

• meeting 1, jan 23. DC circuits, prototyping, transistors, LEDs, intro to the class and the lab.
• meeting 2, jan 30. intro to the Cricket, its virtual machine architecture, and communications
• meeting 3, feb 6. the LogoChip
• meeting 4, feb 13. bus devices and communications
• feb 20, no meeting, Thursday on Monday's schedule
• meeting 5, feb 27. Roger Matar (CAD and CAM).

• meeting 6, mar 6. Andrew Oswald (Dallas Semi's Tini); Tim McNerney (Tangible Programming Bricks).

• meeting 7, mar 13. Karthik (Robot Motion Planning), John Watson, (Gibson's MAGIC).

• spring break, mar 17b

• meeting 8, mar 27. Brian (nanotech), Mike (SC3D Single Camera 3D).

• Botfest Art & Technology Exhibition, Saturday, March 29.

• meeting 9, apr 3. Richard Irons (HERO 2000), Jim McCarthy (CF & MS-DOS FS).

• meeting 10, apr 10. Dave M. (USB, pdf file), Akshay (TI MSP430, pps file).

• meeting 11, apr 17. Nick (FireWire), Kallol (CS8900, pps file), Jianping (microarrays).

• meeting 12, apr 24. Ed (Casinos), Tom (CMUcam), Adrien (Rovers, Word DOC file).

• meeting 13, may 1. Phil (BASIC Stamp and Atom)

• meeting 14, may 8. OPEN HOUSE: Final course projects due.

• monday, may 12. Final course writeups due.

• thursday, may 15. Lab cleanup.