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This curriculum combines the lessons from Year 1 and Year 2 into one year. The students build the same robotic sonar car that the Year 2 curriculum presents.
The class is a four hours long, one time a week. The lab fee for year two is $200 to defray the cost for parts and lab manual. For the parts list as a .pdf file, see Electronics Technology and Robotics II Parts List. Aluminum wheels are turned on a bench lathe, see Making Small Robotic Wheels.
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Class Notes in PDF |
Class Notes in MS Word |
1 |
Matter, Statics, Simple Circuits, Solderless Breadboards |
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2 |
Meters and Ohm's Law |
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3 |
Schematics, Conductors, and Insulators |
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4 |
Lighting, Switches, Soldering |
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5 |
Resistors and Potentiometers |
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6 |
Batteries and Other Sources of Energy |
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7 |
Series Circuits |
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8 |
Comparators and Transistors |
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9 |
Relays |
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10 |
DC Motors |
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11 |
Capacitance |
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12 |
Logic Gates |
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12a |
Digital Applications |
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13 |
Work Week |
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14 |
Introduction to Microcontrollers |
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15 |
Introduction to PicBasic Pro Programming |
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16 |
PicBasic Pro Programming 2 |
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17 |
PicBasic Pro Programming 3, Servos |
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18 |
LCD1 - LCD Command Control Codes |
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19 |
LCD2 - LCD Defines |
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20 |
Active High, Active Low |
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21 |
Motor Control, H-Bridges |
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22 |
Motor Control, Pulse Width Modulation (PWM) |
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23 |
Sonar Car 1 - Servos |
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24 |
Switch Sensors |
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25 |
Resistive Sensors |
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26 |
Ultra-Sonic Sensor |
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27 |
Sonar Car 2 - Arrays and Sonar |
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28 |
Sonar Car 3 - Select Case, Obstacle Avoidance |
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29 |
Sonar Car 4 - Collision Detection |
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Condensed Course Lab Manual (16 MB) |
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Condensed Course Lab Manual Cover |
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