Week 12: CMOS Circuits and EagleCAD For this week’s lecture I’m introducing you to some CMOS circuits using chips originally designed to build computers. This is based on a blog series posted by Elliott Williams called Logic Noise. I would encourage you to watch some of his videos if you’re interested in this kind of thing! Due by 5pm the day before your next lab: Lab Report 12: Show me a clear 30-60 second video of your project working. You should only have one or two things left to do for your final project. This report counts the same as your other lab reports (about 5% of your grade ..read more

Week 11: Intro to 555 Timers This week there is no assignment due for the attached video. Instead, you will make more progress on your final project. Due by 5pm the day before your next lab: Lab Report 11: Project should be about 1/2 done and should have multiple functioning stages. Include a description of what you’ve accomplished so far, ideally with photo + video + schematics, and clear checklist of everything left to do. This report counts the same as your other lab reports (about 5% of your grade) but must be handed in on time for credit.  The written section of your ..read more

This is an optional/extra credit assignment about designing PCBs (printed circuit boards). I’m posting it for anyone interested in taking your analog or digital projects and making them into professional quality printed circuit boards. It’s actually not the hard – anyone who really wants to can do it with just a few days of practice using the software after going through the demo videos below, in which I record the entire process of making a PCB of the multi channel step sequencer lab circuit. The more advanced aspects are covered in the Electronic Product Design class (MPATE-UE/GE 2017). You ..read more

Make a single blog post on your blog with everything highlighted in red below. Email the link to steven.litt@nyu.edu by 5:00pm Tuesday 4/20. Follow along with me as I make a GitHub repository for a simple Arduino project. Make one more change to the code and commit and push it, so that it appears on github.com. Include in your blog post a link to your repository ..read more

For you lab report this week please include everything highlighted in red below. Your lab report is due emailed to your instructor by 5:00pm the day before our next class. If you don’t finish this lab this week you can continue with it next week. Just submit a report this week showing what you got done. In this lab you’ll: 1) Make a multi channel MIDI drum sequencer. Part 1) Add in the multidimensional array a) Start with your one channel drum sequencer from last week. Make sure it still works. b) Replace your switchedOn[4] array with a multidimensional array containing 3 arrays, each of ..read more

Make a single blog post on your blog with everything highlighted in red below. Email the link to steven.litt@nyu.edu by 5:00pm Monday 4/11, the day before our next class. Weekly homework assignments are graded on a scale of 0-5, with 1 point deducted if handed in late. Part 1) The Button Class For the entire assignment, do NOT change anything in Button.cpp or Button.h! Only change and add to the main program – part_1_button.ino. a) Download this (hit the down arrow on the top right of the page). Open the part_1_button.ino file. Make sure that the 3 files in the f ..read more

For you lab report this week please include everything highlighted in red below. Your lab report is due emailed to your instructor by 5:00pm the day before our next class. In this lab you’ll: 1) Make a one channel MIDI drum sequencer. Part 1) Set up 4 push-on push-off buttons a) Start with the push on push off button example you used on lab 8. Set up one button and one led, and make sure it works, just so you know you have it wired up correctly. Don’t change anything in the code, just test that exact code with your button and regular led (not a NeoPixel). It would be a good idea to go th ..read more

Week 10: Guitar Pedal Overview: This week there is no assignment due for the attached video. Instead, you will make some progress on your final project. Due by 5pm the day before your next lab: Lab Report 10: Report on progress so far. Include a description of what you’ve accomplished so far, with photo + video + schematics, and clear checklist of everything left to do. This report about counts the same as your other lab reports (about 6% of your grade) and must be handed in on time for credit.  The written section of your report should be thorough and should be at le ..read more

Week 1 (April 5 – 9)In class: Begin work on Final Projects. Due by 5pm the day before your next lab: Lab Report 10: Report on progress so far. Include a description of what you’ve accomplished so far, with photo + video + schematics, and clear checklist of everything left to do. This report about counts the same as your other lab reports (about 6% of your grade) and must be handed in on time for credit.  The written section of your report should be thorough and should be at least a few paragraphs long.  It should also contain a list of everything you have lef ..read more

(Yes it says Week 8 at the beginning! This was the Week 8 lecture last semester.) There’s no deliverable homework assignment for this week! Instead, do part 1 below, and think about part 2 as necessary. Part 1) Watch the lecture video above and do the code and wiring along with me starting around 33:40, and get that working. Next week in the lab (week 10) we’re going to make a one channel drum sequencer. Then on week 11, for the last lab of the semester, we’ll make a multi channel drum sequencer. That will entail combining together the longer demo from the lecture video (the one that starts a ..read more