Lecture 6 - Electronics Prototyping¶
Date: 9/8/16
Summary¶
In an effort to introduce students to a broad range of tools available for their projects, we will spend several lectures on digital and electronics topics before returning to mechanical design. This section is designed to be hands on as much as possible with the theory of electronics coming later when students can see how it will be applied. Prototyping electronics uses a wide variety of tools and construction techniques. In the class we will go over the prototyping techniques commonly used on the bench and in the lab.
Class Plan¶
- Talk about the various levels of permanence of prototypes (development, semi-permanent, permanent, production)
- Show breadboard and jumper construction technique
- Examples of Perfboard and point-to-point wiring (including strip/bus board)
- Show wire-wrap construction examples
- Talk about Copper board construction (skywire, deadbug, Manhattan)
- Show a custom PCB
- Cover basic soldering equipment and techniques
Activity¶
Using the breadboard and components in the inventor’s kit, replicate the blink exercise using an external LED on a different digital output pin by following the Blinky 2.0 activity.
Assignment¶
Complete the Project Proposal assignment. Think of this as writing the assignment for your final project. The idea and features must be settled now for you to be able to plan and complete the project on time. Due 9/15/16