Electronics and Robotics I Curriculum

Introduction: The course assumes the students know nothing about electronics or robotics so we start from scratch. The textbooks for the course are Electricity and Electronics by Gerrish, Dugger, Roberts and Robot Building for Beginners by David Cook since they cover the fundamentals of electronics and robotics and provide a hands-on robot project called Sandwich. The material on electronics is supplemented with additional information from numerous sources.

The course fee is $150 to pay for the Sandwich parts and textbooks. The students meet for three hours during one weekly session. The focus in the course is hands-on learning using the appropiate equipment and tools. The students use a soldering iron, metal lathe, drill press, and band saw in the construction of Sandwich and a digital multi-meter, signal generator, and oscilloscope in the study of electronics. Electronics Technology and Robotics I Course Description and Sample Pretest.

Electronics and Robotics I Curriculum

Week
Topic
Class Notes in PDF
Class Notes in MS Word
       
Section 1, Fundamentals of Electricity & Electronics
       
1
Nature of Matter, Static Electricity, Parts of Robot
2
Basic Electrical Circuits, Safety
3
Solderless Breadboards
3
Meter Scales, Am/Volt/Ohmmeters, Directly/Inversely Related Terms
4
Ohm's Law, Prefixes
5
Schematics
6
Conductors, PCB's
7
Soldering
8
Switches, Connectors, Fuses
8
Lighting, LEDs
9
Resistors
9
Potentiometers
9a
4-Band Resistor Color Code  
9b
5-Band Resistor Color Code  
10
Energy/Watts/Gears
11
Sources of Electrical Energy - Batteries
12
Other Sources of Electrical Energy
 
Section 2, Basic Circuits
   
13
Series Circuits
14
Parallel Circuits
14a
Summary of Series and Parallel Circuits
15
Combination Circuits
16
Comparators
17
Transistor Switches
 
Section 3, Motors, Generators, Power Distribution
 
18
Basic Magnetic Principles, Electric Current & Magnetism
19
Relays
20
DC and AC
20
The Oscilloscope
21
The Oscilloscope/Function Generator
22
Sandwich PCB, Couplers (Drill Chart) (Tap Chart)
23
Sandwich PCB, Wheels
24
Sandwich PCB, Molex Connectors
25
DC Motors
26
Sandwich Body
 
Section 4, Advanced Electronic Circuits
 
27
Sandwich Body
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28
Sandwich Body
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29
Capacitance
29a
Capacitor Codes
30
Inductance
31
Transformer Theory
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Lab Manual (large files)
(.pdf - 7.5 MB, .doc - 9.3 MB)
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Short Power Point Presentation on
Solderless Breadboards
 

 


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