Technological MacGyvering Daily Schedule Term 3
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See also Daily Schedule Term 2
Week 8 — Power Transistors and Pulse Code Modulation — The Traitorous Eight
- Tuesday, Oct. 26 — Power Transistors — Biasing transistors — Pulse Code Modulation — Finish Pinwheel — Start Zoetrope (Project 10)
- Friday, Oct. 29 — Finish Zoetrope — Understanding npn transistors — Midterm Course Evaluation and Planning — Read Traitorous Eight and the Birth of Silicon Valley
Week 9 — Midterm and Start Internet of Things
- Tuesday, Nov. 2 — Midterm — Discuss Traitorous Eight and the Birth of Silicon Valley
- Friday, Nov. 5 — Discuss Bit Shift Operators and Logical And Operator as Introduced on Midterm — Midterm Solution: Digital Counter Code and Digital Counter Circuit — Discuss Extra Credit Problem on Midterm — Establish Internet of Things (IoT) Cloud Account — Activity 1 from IoT Kit
Week 10 — Continue Internet of Things
- Tuesday, Nov. 9 — Activities 2 and 3 from IoT Kit — Putting Data in the Cloud
- Friday, Nov. 12 — Activities 4 and 6 from IoT Kit — Remote Triggers — Capacitive Sensor and Passive Infrarad Sensor
Week 11 — Continue Internet of Things — Start Web Servers (HTTP, HTML, APIs, and JSON)
- Tuesday, Nov. 16 — Activities 7 and 8 from IoT Kit — Interacting with the Cloud, Controlling Relays
- Friday, Nov. 19 — Activity 9 from IoT Kit — Start Web Servers — HTTP and HTML
Week 12 — Finish IoT Kit Activities — Finish Web Servers (HTTP, HTML, APIs, and JSON)
- Tuesday, Nov. 23 — Activity 10 from IoT Kit — Finish Web Servers — APIs and JSON
Week 13 — Start Special Projects
Teams and Projects (teams of 2 persons, each building 2 projects) — Carmen and Jacob: Upper Reservoir Level and Power Consumption Monitors; Chenyi and Brandon: Pasteurization Temperature Monitor and Greenhouse Temperature Alarm
- Tuesday, Nov. 30 — Start Special Projects
- Friday, Dec. 3 — Continue Special Projects
Week 14 — Finish Special Projects
- Tuesday, Dec. 7 — Continue Special Projects
- Friday, Dec. 10 — Finish Special Projects
Week 15 — Present Special Projects
- Tuesday, Dec. 14 — Present Special Projects 11:45-12:15 Main Building Main Room
