Week 3: Jan 24

Jan 24 | Location: CMCI Studio Shop

Agenda

• Review breadboard basics
• Review arduino board basics
  • What’s on the board?
  • What do the numbers and symbols mean?
• Look at how to use multimeter
• Voltage, Current, Resistance and Ohms Law
• Look at different components and talk about what they are.
  • Component reference: ASK Book - Ch 00 Introduction, pg 6-11
  • Resistor color codes: ASK Book - pg 41
• Circuit diagrams
• Series and parallel circuits
• In class - Work on Project 2: Spaceship Interface
• Radiolab: Colors
• Solderless Jumpers - Nice pack of flexible jumper wires.
• Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
• Weatherproof LED strand - Addressable and waterproof LEDs

Assignment 2: ASK Projects 3-4

This week you will work through the following tutorials in the Arduino Starter Kit book. We will review in class next week.

• Chapter 3: Love-o-Meter
• Chapter 4: Color Mixing Lamp

Topics covered through these tutorials:

• Using the Serial Monitor to read sensor data
• Reading analog input from a sensor
• Digital outputs
• Using temperature sensor
• Using phototransistor to read light/color
• PWM (Pulse Width Modulation)

Reference:

• Arduino Language Reference
• Arduino Uno R3 Docs
• Serial Terminal Basics
• PWM
• Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs)
• Flow of Electricity through a Circuit
• RGB LED Example - THe LED in the ASK is Common Cathode.
• Resistor Color Code Calculator

Deliverable:

Document anything you build beyond the tutorials via blog post and share a link to it on Slack in #cmstudio.

Due: Jan 31