Physical Computing 2009-2010

Basic Info

09/15/09-09/17/09	Microcontrollers	Class Intro Basic Electronics Homework: Read Pp.
09/21/09-09/23/09	Circuits	Ohms Law Ohms Law Review First Circuits LED Resistance Calculator Homework: Read Pp.
09/29/09	Schematics	Reading Schematics Homework: Read Pp.
10/01/09	Soldering	Microcontroller Freeduino
10/06/09-10/08/09	Soldering	Soldering Proto Board
10/13/09-10/15/09	Microcontrollers	Programming
10/20/09	Potentiometers	Variable Resistance
10/22/09-10/29/09	Variable Resistance and LED's	Spooky
10/29/09-11/03/09	LEDs	Prototyping Colored Lamp
11/05/09-11/12/09	Switches	Buttons 1
11/17/09-11/19/09	Switches	Buttons 2 Resistor Configuration Review
11/24/09	Switches	Buttons 3 Buttons 4
12/01/09-12/8/09	Joule Thief	Joule Thief
12/10/08	Drawdio	Drawdio
12/15/09	Switches &LEDs	Bike Light part 1
1/5/10	Switches &LEDs	Build a better Bike Light
1/7/10-1/14/10	Arrays	More LEDs Some Math
1/19/10-1/21/10	Programable LEDs	LDRs
1/26/10-2/4/10	Sound	Piezos
02/16/10-02/18/10	Thermistors	Baby it's cold outside Homework: Bring in something squeezable
2/23/10-3/2/10	Analog Sensors	Pulse width Modulation
02/4/10-03/11/10	Servos	Critters Twitchie
03/26/10-03/18/10	Motors	Tip120 Motor City Homework: build a linkage
03/23/10-03/25/10	Plush Hack	What's Inside homework: build a crank
04/06/10-04/20/10	Automata	Cuckoo Clock Homework:Build something with gears
*	Final Project	Final Project Cams More Cams Linkages Cranks Gears Levers Pulleys Guides
*	Microcontrollers	Using a Multimeter Multimeter exercise

10/09/09	Microcontrollers	Materials Resistors Capacitors Diodes Transistors Variable Resistors IC's Class Intro Basic Electronics Ohms Law Ohms Law Review First circuits
10/16/09-10/23/09	Microcontrollers	Arduino Chip Programming Homework: Read Wired article on Arduino
10/26/09-10/30/09	analogWrite()	Spooky
11/2/09-11/6/09	Soldering	Minty Boost
11/9/09-11/13/09	Relays	Relays
11/02/09-11/18/09	Makerbot
11/16/09-11/23/09	PWM	PWM
11 classes	Sound	Piezos Zipper Switches
1-2 classes	Thermistors	Baby it's Cold Outside
1-2 classes	Photocells (LDRs)	Photocells
1-2 classes	Serial Communication	Arduino and Processing
1-2 classes	Lilypads	Lilypad
		Duino Tag
	I²C	Wii Numchuck
11/11/09-11/23/09	Wireless	XBees
11/10/08-11/17/08	AVR programmers	64 Pixel
11/20/08-11/24/08	IC's and LEDs	Fireflies
		Programmable LEDs
		Duino Tag
#	Final Project	Final Project

09/14/09	Microcontrollers	Materials Resistors Capacitors Diodes Transistors Variable Resistors IC's Class Intro Basic Electronics Ohms Law Ohms Law Review Homework: Research Digital Fabrication Define the following terms CAD CAM CNC
09/16/09	Microcontrollers	First circuits
09/21/08	Resistors	LED resistor calculator Homework: Research RepRap Define the following terms G-Code Subtractive Fabrication Laser cutting Fused deposition modeling
09/23/09	Soldering	Arduino Chip Freeduino Homework: Read Wired article on Arduino
9/30/09-10/05/09	Soldering	Soldering Proto Board Homework: Define the following terms Milling machine Rapid prototyping Three-dimensional printing
10/07/09-10/19/09	LEDs	Programming
10/19/09-10/21/09	Relays	Relays
10/26/09-10/28/09	analogWrite()	Spooky
11/02/09-11/18/09	Makerbot
11/09	PWM	PWM
11 classes	Sound	Piezos Zipper Switches
1-2 classes	Thermistors	Baby it's Cold Outside
1-2 classes	Photocells (LDRs)	Photocells
2 -4 classes	Serial Communication	Arduino and Processing
1-2 classes	Lilypads	Lilypad
		Duino Tag
	I²C	Wii Numchuck
	Wireless	XBees
	AVR programmers	64 Pixel
	IC's and LEDs	Fireflies
		Programmable LEDs
		Duino Tag
#	Final Project	Final Project