| Week |
Topic |
Lecturer |
Reading |
| 1 |
No Class |
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| 2 |
Orientation, Form Teams, Contest Rules, Available Parts |
Dr. Randy Beard |
|
| 3 |
Tour of 417 Facilities |
Joe Bussio |
|
| 4 |
Mechanical Structure and Design |
Dr. Tim McLain |
|
| 5 |
Microcontrollers, programming, system architecture |
Dr. Jim Archbald |
|
| 6 |
Microcontrollers, programming, system architecture |
Dr. Jim Archbald |
|
| 7 |
Motors, how they work, how to select, where to get them |
Dr. Randy Beard |
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| 8 |
Sensors, what's available and how they work and where to get them |
Dr. Kevin Smith |
|
| 9 |
RF communication - basic principles |
Dr. Michael Rice |
|
| 10 |
RF communications - basic principles |
Dr. Michael Rice |
|
| 10 |
Preparation for Design Proposal |
Doug Clifford |
|
| 12 |
Batteries and power, how to select, where to get them |
Dr. Linton Salmon (?) |
|
| 13 |
Computer vision - basic principles |
Dr. Brian Jeffs |
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| 14 |
Computer vision - basis principles |
Dr. Brian Jeffs |
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| 15 |
Design Proposal Due. |
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