Weekly Assignments:

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Group assignment:

• Characterize the design rules for your in-house PCB production process: document the settings for your machine.

• Document the workflow for sending a PCB to a boardhouse

• Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned

Individual assignment:

• Make and test a microcontroller development board that you designed

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Group assignment:

• Probe an input device(s)’s analog levels and digital signals (As a minimum, you should demonstrate the use of a multimeter and an oscilloscope.)

• Document your work on the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned

Individual assignment:

• Measure something: add a sensor to a microcontroller board that you have designed and read it.

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Group assignment:

• Measure the power consumption of an output device.

• Document your work on the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned.

Individual assignment:

• Add an output device to a microcontroller board you’ve designed and program it to do something.

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Group assignment:

• Send a message between two projects

• Document your work to the group work page and reflect on your individual page what you learned

Individual assignment:

• Design, build and connect wired or wireless node(s) with network or bus addresses and a local input and/or output device(s)

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Mechanical Design (part 1 of 2)

Group assignment:

• Design a machine that includes mechanism + actuation + automation + application

• Build the mechanical parts and operate it manually

• Document the group project

Individual assignment:

• Document your individual contribution

Machine Design (part 2 of 2)

Group assignment:

• Actuate and automate your machine

• Document the group project

Individual assignment:

• Document your individual contribution

Individual Contribution to Mechanical and Machine Design Week

Paper Stop System

For our pen plotter, we were initially using tapes to put our paper into our machine for it to plot.