| Day |
Date |
Due |
Class Topics |
To Do for Next Class |
| Week 1 |
| 1 |
Dec 2 |
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- Identify a partner for the labs and the project
- Watch "Introduction
to Transistors" video and prepare for a quiz (29:48)
- Bring $25 cash to purchase lab kits.
|
| 2 |
Dec 3 |
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| 3 |
Dec 5 |
- Lab 1
- Receipt for PIC chips (submit with quiz)
|
- Check off Lab 1
- Quiz on "Snubber Diodes, Decoupling Capacitors, and H-Bridges"
- Work on Lab 2
|
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| Week 2 |
| 4 |
Dec 9 |
|
- Quiz on "Motors"
- Discuss 3 project ideas with instructor
- Work on Lab 2
|
- Watch "Intro
to MPLABx" video and prepare for a quiz (42:42, need green board)
- EVERYONE MUST BRING A LAPTOP WITH MPLABx INSTALLED TO CLASS ON DAY 5
|
| 5 |
Dec 10 |
|
- Quiz on "Intro to MPLABx"
- Remaining teams discuss 3 project ideas with instructor
- Work on Lab 2
|
- Watch "Intro
to C" video and prepare for a quiz (35:10)
|
| 6 |
Dec 12
|
|
- Quiz on "Intro to C"
- Work on Lab 2
|
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| Week 3 |
| 7 |
Dec 16 |
|
- Quiz on "Number Systems"
- Check off Lab 2
- Discuss selected project idea with instructor
- Work on Lab 3
|
|
| 8 |
Dec 17 |
|
|
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| 9 |
Dec 19 |
No class due to night exam |
No class due to Tuesday's night exam |
|
| Christmas Break |
| Week 4 |
| 10 |
Jan 6 |
|
- Quiz on "Instruction Cycles and Special Function Registers"
- Discuss Exam 1
- Work on Lab 4
|
|
| 11 |
Jan 7 |
|
- Quiz on "Functions and Debugging"
- Work on Lab 4
|
- Watch "Timers" video and
prepare
for a quiz (45:30, need green board)
|
| 12 |
Jan 9 |
|
- Quiz on "Timers"
- Overview of Interrupts
- Work on Lab 4
|
- Watch "Interrupts" video and
prepare for a quiz (41:08 plus 7:00 optional, need green board)
- Lab 4 must be ready for check-off first thing next class.
|
| Week 5 |
| 13 |
Jan 13 |
|
- Quiz on "Interrupts"
- Check off Lab 4
- Work on Lab 5
|
|
| 14 |
Jan 14
|
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|
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| 15 |
Jan 16 |
|
- Quiz on "Light Sensors"
- Work on Lab 5
|
- Watch "Pulse
Width Modulation" video and prepare for a quiz (47:52, need green board)
- Lab 5 must be ready for check-off first thing next class.
|
| Week 6 |
| 16 |
Jan 20 |
|
- Quiz on "Pulse Width Modulation"
- Check off Lab 5
- Work on Lab 6
|
- Watch "UART
Communication" video and prepare for a quiz (43:26 + 7:21 optional, need green
board, YOU ALSO NEED ONE PIECE
OF WIRE from your lab kit.)
|
| 17 |
Jan 21 |
|
- Quiz on "UART Communication"
- Work on Lab 6
|
|
| 18 |
Jan 23 |
|
- Quiz on "Intro to PLCs and Ladder Logic"
- Check off Lab 6
- Work on Lab 7
|
|
| Week 7 |
| 19 |
Jan 27 |
|
- Quiz on "Picosoft Markers, Timers, and Counters"
- Work on Lab 7
|
|
| 20 |
Jan 28 |
|
- Quiz on "Finite State Machines for PLCs"
- Soldering
Day (all day, in lab). Bring your computers anyway.
|
|
| 21 |
Jan 30 |
|
- Quiz on "Finite State Machines for PICs"
- Work on Lab 7
|
- Lab 7 must be ready for check-off first thing next class.
|
| Week 8 |
| 22 |
Feb 3 |
|
- Check off Lab 7
- Work on Lab 8
|
|
| 23 |
Feb 4 |
No class due to night exam |
|
|
| 24 |
Feb 6 |
|
- Tank and Conveyor Demonstration
- Work on Lab 8
|
- Create an FSM for the Lab 9 tank
|
| Week 9 |
| 25 |
Feb 10 |
|
- Discuss FSMs for Lab 9
- Work on Lab 8
|
- Lab 8 must be ready for check-off first thing next class.
|
| 26 |
Feb 11 |
|
- Check off Lab 8
- Work on Lab 9
|
|
| 27 |
Feb 13 |
|
- Work on Lab 9
- If you've finished Lab 9 then it's a project work day, bring your project to class!
|
- Lab 9 must be ready for check-off by the end of class tomorrow.
|
| Week 10 |
| 28 |
Feb 17 |
|
- Finish Lab 9 and get it checked off by the end of class
- If you've finished Lab 9 then it's a project work day, bring your project to class!
|
- Finish project (make sure it is programmed and ready to go)
|
| 29 |
Feb 18 |
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| 30 |
Feb 20 |
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- Course Evaluations
- Overview/Review
of Course
- Discuss Final
- Donate spare PIC chips to ME430 (optional)
- Clean out lockers
- Confirm your white tub kits have all parts and check them in to Jerry
- Bring green board kits for inspection:
- All parts in photo present
- Small loopback test wire present
- Small screwdriver present
- Purchase buzzers and screwdrivers if those are missing
- Donate any unwanted parts to the free parts room
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