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Lessons

  • 0. Getting set up
  • 1. Prototyping electronic devices
  • 2. A tour of Ardiuno Uno and the solderless breadboard
  • 3. Hello, world. (a.k.a. Blink)
  • 4. Schematics
  • 5. Programming Arduino
  • 6. Practice programming Arduino
  • 7. ADC and USART
  • 8. Pulse width modulation
  • 9. Asynchrony and blocking
  • 10. Serial communication with Python
  • 11. Controlling Arduino with widgets
  • 12. Requesting and receiving data from Arduino
  • 13. Streaming data from Arduino
  • 14. Asynchronously receiving data from Arduino
  • 15. Streaming plots with Bokeh
  • 16. Control panels
  • 17. Libraries, DAC, and I2C
  • 18. Using a liquid crystal display
  • 19. Voltage dividers
  • 20. Introduction to filters
  • 21. Photoresistors, trimming, and ADC
  • 22. Operational amplifiers
  • 23. Op-amps as mathematical operators
  • 24. Transistors
  • 25. Sample-and-hold circuits
  • 26. Active filters
  • 27. Digital filters
  • 28. Photodiodes, phototransistors, and transimpedance amplifiers

Exercises

  • Thinking exercises
  • Follow-along exercises
  • Do-it-yourself exercises

Projects

  • Spectrophotometer
  • Pulse oximetry

Schedule

  • Schedule overview
  • Due dates
  • Weekly activities

Resources

  • Software
  • Books
  • Online resources

Policies

  • Meetings
  • Course structure
  • Course communications
  • Equipment
  • Submission of exercises and project write-ups
  • Exercises
  • Project write-ups
  • Collaboration policy
  • Grading

Components

  • Components
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Thinking exercises

Thinking exercises are embedded in lessons. For convenience here are links to the respective exercises.

  • Thinking exercise 1: Resistor values

  • Thinking exercise 2: USB speed limits

  • Thinking exercise 3: Other asynchronous functions

  • Thinking exercise 4: if vs. while

  • Thinking exercise 5: Safeguards

  • Thinking exercise 6: Passive low-pass RC filter

  • Thinking exercise 7: Another amplifier

  • Thinking exercise 8: Sallen-Key response

  • Thinking exercise 9: Death of the sampling theorem?

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Last updated on Sep 27, 2024.

© 2020–2024 Justin Bois. With the exception of pasted graphics, where the source is noted, this work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 4.0. All code contained herein is licensed under an MIT license.

This document was prepared at Caltech with financial support from the Donna and Benjamin M. Rosen Bioengineering Center.



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