Fall 2008
Lecture:
- Tuesday/Thursday 9:30-10:50 a.m.
- Taylor Hall 104
- The syllabus can be found here .
- The text is The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill (2nd ed.)
Lab:
- Wednesdays 1 - 4 p.m.
- Taylor Hall 009
Useful Mindstorms Links:
- Wikipedia has background info and basic pin assignments for the connectors.
- Basic info at the Lego Mindstorms site.
- Mindstorms NXT'REME has info for taking the NXT to the extreme; most useful is the Hardware Development Kit.
- Some homemade hacks at Philo's page and Michael Gasperi's site.
| Aug 27 | Intro to Igor and Lab guidelines | |
| Sept 3 | Lab 1: | The Voltage Divider | Sept 10 | Lab 2: | RC Circuits |
| Sept 17 | Lab 3: | RLC Resonance |
| Sept 24 | Lab 4: | Inverting and Non-inverting OpAmp Circuits |
| Oct 1 | Lab 5: | The OpAmp Circuit of Your Choice |
| Oct 8 | Lab 5: | --continued & Robot design group meeting |
| Oct 15 | Lab 6: | Digital Logic Circuits |
| Oct 22 | Lab 7: | More Digital Logic Circuits |
| Oct 29 | Lab 8: | A/D and D/A Conversion |
| Nov 5 | Lab 9: | Intro to LabView (& DAQ user guide & NXT Getting Started guide, fyi) |
| Nov 12 | Lab R: | Robot Design and Construction |
| Nov 19 | Lab R: | Robot Design and Construction |
| Nov 26 | --no lab | |
| Dec 3 | Lab R: | Robot Design and Construction |