CS 3651 - The Art of Prototyping Intelligent Appliances

Summer 2013 CS 3651 Calendar

Week 1: May 13th-17th - Introduction, Safety, Electricity, Basic components

• Course Syllabus
• Presentation Grading Sheet
• Assigned Reading:Section 50.1-50.7 of the Faculty Handbook: GT IP Ownership Policy
  Questions you should be able to answer after reading the above:
  • Who owns the intellectual property rights to an invention I develop in CS 3651?
  • If something I make in CS 3651 results in a million dollar licensing deal, how much of that money will I receive?
• Assigned Reading:Architecture Shop Manual
• Presentation: Jay - Safety.ppt
• Read: Circuit Basics
• Watch video: Introduction to Multimeters
• Watch video: Using Multimeters in a circuit
• Watch Video: Introduction To Breadboards
• Watch Video: CS 3651 - Introduction to Circuit Schematics
• Watch Video: Introduction to Resistors
• Resistor Color Code Chart
• Watch Video: Introduction to Capacitors
• Useful conversion page for pico/nano Fared.
• Watch Video: LED's
• Demo 0 - Rubber Band Car Due May 28th.
• Demo 1 - Voltage Dividers, Multimeters, and soldering. Due May 21st.
• Demo 2 - Arduino Teensy Due May 23rd.

Week 2: May 20th-24th Circuits

• Watch Video: How to Solder
• Watch Video: How to remove solder!
• Watch Video: ProtoBoards
• Watch Video: CS 3651 - Pull Up & Pull Down Resistors
• Watch Video: CS 3651 - Pull Up Resistors
• Watch Video: CS 3651 - Pull Down Resistors
• Wikipedia entry on Pull-up/down resistors
• Watch Video: Sensing with a Switch
• Watch video: Sensing with a Photo-resistor
• Sources for parts:
  New Parts:
  • Digikey - Expensive, but have the best selection.
  • Mouser - Good selection.
  Kits & Parts:
  • SparkFun - Lots of good sensors and pre-built modules for Radio/GPS/Cellular projects.
  • Ramsey Electronics - Lots of great kits and DIY stuff.
  • Jameco Electronics
  Surplus:
  • MPJA - Surplus house located in Fl - Good surplus and fast shipping to GA.
  • All Electronics Corp. - Surplus house.
  • American Science & Surplus - Lots of non-electronics surplus plus motors, etc.
  Local:
  • ACK Electronics - Local Ham radio / Electronics shop located on Northside drive.
  • Salvation Army thrift store on the South edge of campus
• Demo 3 - Photoresistor sensing due Thursday May 30th
• Spring 2009 Project Brainstorming ideas
• Spring 2011 Project Brainstorming Presentations
• Sunday May 26th: Project Brainstorm Slide(s) due before 11:55pm slide template.ppt

Week 3: May 27-31st - Project Brainstorming, Arduinos

• Tuesday May 28th - Brainstorming Presentations
• Idea Videos:
  • Nootron 3D spherical display
  • LED Touch - using LED's as light sensors and emitters at the same time.
  • Single Cookie Making machine
  • Lego Turing Machine
  • Water Propelled Jet Pack
• Demo 4 - Microcontroller Switches due Tuesday June 4th

Week 4: June 3rd - 7th - DAC & PWM

• Form Project Teams due Tuesday June 4th.
• Watch videos: Digital to Analog Converter Parts: One, Two and Three
• Demo 5 - DAC & PWM due Thursday June 6th

Week 5: June 10-14th - Projects, Power & Oscilloscopes

• Demo 6 - Power due Tuesday June 11th
• Watch Videos: Full Wave Rectifier part one and two
• Watch Video: Using an Oscilloscope
• Watch video: What is the HPS140?
• Watch video: HPS140 User menu Demo
• Watch Video: HPS 140 Quick Measuring HOWTO
• Watch Video: Internal Resistance (IR)
• Watch video: How to test the IR of a battery.
• Watch Video: Power: P=IV and resistor wattage
• Watch Video: Power: Linear Regulators
  Schematic photo:here
• Project Proposals due Tuesday June 11th.
• Simple SCRUMM project management
• Demo 7 - 1 bit ADC due Thursday June 13th

Week 6: June 17th-21st - Switching Current

• Watch Videos: Switches & Relays part1 part2, and Using a transistor as a switch
• Demo 8 - Transistors due Tuesday June 18th
• Read: One-page PDF on Darlington Pairs
• Watch Video: CS 3651 - Using a Darlington Pair to make a touch sensor
• Demo 9 - H-Bridge due Thursday June 20th
• Watch Video: H-Bridge
• Wikipedia article on H-Bridge
• Review Questions
• Read: Driving an inductive load from a TTL signal
• Etching Circuit Boards with household chemicals
• Datasheets for the LM 555 and LM556 chips.
• Read about using a Hall Effect sensor and look at the LM335AZ datasheet
• Watch:Molding/casting a face and Cavity Pour (and optionally: Molding/casting a hand)
• Sources for copyright free and creative commons media:
  • Public Domain Images
  • Creative Commons Music

Week 7: June 24th-28th - Motors & Project Work

• Skill Demo 10 - DC Speed control / Servo / Stepper
• A Stepper motor video
• 6 lead unipolar stepper specsheet (PF35T-48L4)
• Making electricity using a stepper motor
• SD 10.1 Due Tuesday June 25th
• SD 10.2 & 10.3 Due Thursday June 27th

Week 8: July 1st-5th - Project Work

• Project Website part 1 due Tuesday July 2nd
• Interesting links:Billiard Robots Foosball Robots
• Review of conductive thread for electronic textiles
• Conductive Fabric Projects

Week 9: July 8-12th: Project Work

• Project Status Report - Tuesday July 9th
• SD 10.4 & 10.5 Due Thursday July 11th

Week 10: July 15-19th: Project Work

• Project Functionality Grading: Thursday July 18th

Week 11: July 22nd - 26th: Project Work

• Final Project Demo : Tuesday July 23rd - CoC Picnic Area 10:30-11:30am
• Lab Cleanup! Thursday July 25th
• Project Website Pt 2 - Thursday July 25th

Finals Week

• Project Video due: Monday July 29th before 11:55pm
• Project Presentations - Final exam period - Tuesday July 30th, 2:50-5:40pm

Calendar | Syllabus | Final Projects