ME430 MECHATRONICS -- Fisher -- Fall 2009-2010

Day Date Class Topics To Do for Next Class Due
1 Thursday
Sept 3		 --
2 Monday
Sept 7
  • Buy lab kits for $20
  • Record lab partners and assign lockers
  • Quiz on "Introduction to MPLAB"
  • Intro to C Programming Language
  • $20 for lab kit
  • "tester.c" print out
3 Tuesday
Sept 8
  • Quiz on "Number Systems"
  • Using the PICDEM demo board
  • Time for Lab 1
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4 Thursday
Sept 10
  • Quiz on "Variable Types and Operations"
  • Checkoff Lab 1, Start Lab 2

 
  • Lab 1, due by end of period
5 Monday
Sept 14
  • Project meetings for port number teams
  • Quiz on "Instruction Cycles and Special Function Registers"
  • Time for Lab 2
  • 3 project ideas from team (port teams)
  • Receipt for ordering PICs
6 Tuesday
Sept 15
  • Project meetings for starboard number teams
  • Quiz on "Writing Functions"
  • Using a breadboard intro
  • Time for Lab 2
  • 3 project ideas from team (starboard teams)
7 Thursday
Sept 17
  • Quiz on "Transistors"
  • ICD2 as debugger/programmer
  • Checkoff Lab 2, Start Lab 3
  • Lab 2, due at start of period
8 Monday
Sept 21
  • Quiz on "Snubber Diodes, Decoupling Capacitors, and H-Bridges"
  • Project meetings all teams
  • Time for Lab 3
  • Week 3 Project meetings, Project Selected and rough draft of parts
9 Tuesday
Sept 22		 EXAM 1 -- IN CLASS
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10 Thursday
Sept 24
  • Motor "quiz"
  • Checkoff Lab 3, Start Lab 4
  • Lab 3, due by end of period
11 Monday
Sept 28

12 Tuesday
Sept 29
  • Quiz on "Interrupts, day 1 of 2"


13 Thursday
Oct 1
  • Quiz on "Interrupts, day 2 of 2"

  • Finish Lab 4, Start Lab 5
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15 Tuesday
Oct 6
  •  Quiz on "IR Circuits"
  • Discuss revised project proposal and shopping list, port teams
  • Time for Lab 5

16 Thursday
Oct 8
  • Quiz on "Pulse Width Modulation"
  • Hands on PWM

17 Monday
Oct 12
  • Quiz on "UART Communication"
  • Finish Lab 5, Start Lab 6
  • Lab 5, due by end of period
18 Tuesday
Oct 13
  • Quiz on "MATLAB GUI Communication Day 1"
  • Project meetings for all teams
  • Show receipt of Project purchases
Fall Break
19 Monday
Oct 19
  • Quiz on "MATLAB GUI Communication Day 2"

20 Tuesday
Oct 20
  • No quiz!  Bring requested SolidEdge printout.
  • Soldering Day (all day, in lab). Bring your computers anyway.
  • SolidEdge printout
21 Thursday
Oct 22
  • Quiz on "Intro to PLCs"
  • Go over "Prior to Exam" handout
  • Finish Lab 6 start Lab 7/8
  •  Lab 6, due by end of period
22 Monday
Oct 26
  • Quiz on "Learning Picosoft"
  • Work on Lab 7/8
 
23 Tuesday
Oct 27		 --
24 Thursday
Oct 29
  • Quiz on "Finite State Machines"
  • Tank and Conveyor Demonstration
  • Work on Lab 7/8
  • Make a Finite State Machine of the Tank problem and bring the original and a copy of it to class on Day 25
  • Project Week 8 Core Component
25 Monday
Nov 2
  • Go over FSM, discuss translating FSM to Picosoft Ladder Logic.
  • Concept Questions on Ladder Logic
  • Lab 7/8 needs to be ready to check off first thing on Day 26

26 Tuesday
Nov 3
  • Prepare project Week 9 code demo
  • Lab 7/8, due by end of period
27 Thursday
Nov 5
  • Lab 9 needs to be ready to check off during lab on Day 28
  • Project Week 9 CS/EE Complete
28 Monday
Nov 9		 --
  • Lab 9, due by end of period
29 Tuesday
Nov 10
  • Course Evaluations
  • Overview/Review of Course
  • Discuss Final
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30 Thursday
Nov 12
  • Project Demonstrations!
  • Clean out lockers and check out
  • Bring your computers to the final
  • Project documentation due before walking into final
  • Project completely working and ready to be demonstrated.