Lab

Set up your own electronics bench at home.

Labs

Some are required, some are optional. Consult with your instructor regarding policies for these "cookbook" labs.

1. Perf-board soldering lab practice | Supporting info

   Non-linear oscillator notes from EE 230. These explain the operation of the oscillator portion of the PWM circuit. As might recall, there is also a Javascript calculator to help determine the V_TL, V_TH, and oscillation frequency of the circuit.

   Soldering tutorial from Curious Inventor (about 6 min) or a similar tutorial from "One Tesla" (about 4 min). Be sure to watch one or both of these before lab.

   soldering tutorial from EEVBlog. (Watch this, too, if you have enough time. )

   Prequel to the above EEVBlog video. (You can put this one off until later, if time is short now.)

   A perfboard soldering example from the old Audio club, done as a club project. (The circuit is a classic 555-based LED flasher.)

   A perfboard soldering video from that Jameco guy.

   A simple Perfboard planning app. available on github. It's limited, but can be helpful.

   Perfboard graph paper that could be printed and used to sketch out a soldering plan.

   Fritzing can be used to make a perf board plan.

2. KiCad layout
3. Linear regulators | electronic load
4. Temperature sensors
5. Photodetectors and LEDs
6. Switched-mode regulators 1
7. Switched-mode regulators 2
8. Surface-mount soldering (subject to change).
9. Bare-duino
10. Arduino: Digital I/O, analog input, and PWM.
11. Arduino: push-button input, LCD, and LED display
12. Arduino: real-time clock, serial communications
13. ATtiny
14. Power output stages
15. Class D amplifier (maybe)