Thursday
Facilitated by Paul
Hang up butcher paper
1:00pm Check-in, group feedback, feedback on feedback 1:15pm First Activity
- Electrical concepts: voltage / potential, amperes / currents, ohms / resistance, watts / power
- equations to relate them, Ohm's Law
- Electrical wiring 101, different wire gauge sizes
- Electrical safety, grounding, static discharge, live wires, turning off power
- Fire safety
- Transistor and diode basics
- voltage / current transfer curves
- transistors: as gates everywhere in digital electronics (FETs)
- diodes: light-emitting, polarity-protection on power lines-
- Blinking LED from GPIO of Raspberry Pi
- Protoboards, and rows connected
- Measuring with multimeter
- Measuring with an oscilloscope (if one is available)
1:55pm Break 2:05pm Discuss volunteers to facilitate future class meetings
- Edit the markdown file for your given week
- Collect agenda items from yourself and classmates.
- What is important to talk about and get feedback from everyone?
- How long is an appropriate amount of time to talk about it?
- Come to potluck Mondays to get help preparing for your activity, finding needed equipment 2:15pm List all possible class activities to teach us needed skills
- Don't worry if we don't know who is going to lead the activity yet, we can find them
- A future activity: finding guest speakers, visiting different centers on campus
- Paul will lead first activity Thursday of Week 01: electrical safety, protoboards, look for multimeters and oscilloscopes
- Melissa will lead second activity Tuesday of Week 02: desired data tables for farm, feedback on our data proposals from DSA-24au
- Activities can include both learning to do farming activities and computer / electronics engineering work 2:55pm End with gratitude, clean up PCC
- Writing / Designing Homework: Your first draft of an ILC contract will be due next Tuesday
- Building / Maintaining Homework: Agree with your teammates what you want to prototype, test, build, or maintain this week