Day 10: (Mon Sep 30, Week 6) Observation Review

Notes for 2024-09-30.

New Assignments

  1. New assignment, due Wednesday: Project: Ideation. Please note the deliverable is a single sheet of paper to pass around and mark up, this is important for the in-class exercise.

  2. New assignment, due Mon Oct 7: Exercise: Programmed Puppet. Please bring your result to class and submit documentation to the Exercise 5 Shared Folder prior to class.

Note: the exercise still refers to a DRV8833 dual motor driver. We still have some of these in stock but are in the process of replacing them with the TB6612FNG as our default module. I will be updating the sample circuit soon.

Administrative

Tentative project schedule:

  • Week 6: Children’s School analysis, project ideation, project pair formation

  • Week 7: proposal development and critique

  • Week 8: Fall Break, no class

  • Week 9: prototype build

  • Week 10: prototype build

  • Week 11: prototype test on Mon Nov 4

Agenda

  1. Review observations from school visit.

  2. Demo your hobby servo motion patterns.

  3. Discuss the ideation assignment.

  4. Discuss the programmed puppet assignment.

  5. Introduction to DC motor drivers. Reference: DC Motor Examples - Raspberry Pi Pico.