11. Input devices

Due date 2024/04/16

1614 illinois board

  1. Conceive

    1. This week we focused on understanding how microcontroller units (MCU) sense the real world using sensors.
    2. Input devices are like human senses. They provide MCUs with observational information

Assignment

To do Done
Group assignment ⬇
Probe an input device(s)’s analog and digital signals. No
No
Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned. No
Individual assignment ⬇
Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it. No

Learning outcomes

To do Done
Demonstrate workflows used in sensing something with input device(s) and MCU board. No

Checklist questions

Have you? Done
Linked to the group assignment page? Yes
Documented what you learned from interfacing an input device(s) to your microcontroller and how the physical property relates to the measured results? No
Documented your design and fabrication process or linked to the board you made in a previous assignment? No
Explained the programming process/es you used? No
Explained any problems you encountered and how you fixed them? No
Included original design files and source code? No
Included your ‘hero shot’ of your board? No

  1. Context

    1. Syllabus FAW11
    2. Assessment FAW11
    3. Tutorial FAW11
    4. Video FAW11
    5. Review FAW11

  2. Comprehend

    1. A device provides input to a microcontroller when it transforms an observation of its environment into a signal that the controller can interpret.
    2. Input devices
      1. Cameras
      2. Microphones
      3. Electrical sensors
      4. Motion sensors
      5. Time sensors
      6. Chemical sensors
      7. Mass sensors
      8. Temperature sensors

  3. Take caution

    1. Human
    2. Machine
    3. Environment

  4. Calibrate

  5. Control

    1. Material-machine interface
      1. Materials
      2. Fixtures
      3. Tools
    2. machine-controller interface
    3. Controller-CAM interface
    4. CAM-design interface
    5. Design-human interface
    6. Group assignment
      1. Probe an input device(s)’s analog and digital signals
      2. Document work

  6. Create

    1. Human-science interface
    2. Human-industry interface
    3. Human-art interface
    4. What assumptions can we break?
    5. Individual assignment
      1. Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it.

Assignment tasks

Step 001

Learning outcomes

  1. Demonstrate workflows used in sensing something with input device(s) and MCU board

made i2c from ftdi; matched output pin to vcc; mistake; only output from actual current source should be output; on i2c, both vcc and gnd should be input; note vcc and gnd pins on integrated circuits.