CMSC298P: Prototyping and Fabrication of Cyberphysical System

Logistics

It a 2 credit hour course that meets Friday 1-4pm in Sandbox (CSIC 3107) for first 10 weeks of the semester.

Notes

There will be no tests/exams. You will have to design, document, and demo a number of projects utilizing the techniques covered in this course. Some of the projects will be team projects. If you already know a topic being covered, you will be responsible for assisting others to learn that topic. There will be few if any lectures; the instructor will act in more of a coach and office hours role.

Prerequisites

CMSC 216, ENEE245, ENME 350, or ARTT 370, or permission of the instructor.

Class notes

• Jan 28th: Welcome
• Feb 3rd: starting electronics
• Feb 10th
• Feb 17th
• Feb 24th
• March 3rd

Possible topics (we probably won’t be able to cover all of this)

Getting started with Adafruit Circuit Playground and the Arduino IDE (about 6 hours, max)

• Get everything configured, load demo programs from IDE
• write your own examples using circuit playground sensors and LEDs
• Connecting the Circuit Playground to external components (distance monitors, servos, LED strips, etc)

Electrical components

• Basic electronics: power, resistors, capacitors, LEDs, ICs

• how to read and create circuit diagrams.

• Protoboards
• Soldering through hole components, desoldering
• Using multimeters, logic analyzers and other electronic tools
• surface mount soldering
• Designing and manufacturing your own PCB
• Working with sensors, LEDS and actuators

Physical prototyping

• Using AutoCad Fusion 360 and OpenSCAD to design physical components
• Using the laser cutter, 3d printers and hand tools to build enclosures

Generative art

• Using Processing or other tools for creating generating art

Makespace tools

• Hand tools for wood working
• Assembling components: glue gun, screws, more
• Power tools for wood working
• Sewing machine

ESP8266 boards

• Connect to Wifi, post data from sensors to web (using MQTT and/or AWS iOT)

• Wifi, TCP/IP, sockets and web connectivity (at the user level)

• Integrate with Alexa Smart Home Service
• communicate between devices using i2c
• dealing with unreliable and/or intermittent internet connectivity

Industrial strength embedded systems (just enough to let you know what we haven’t covered)

• security
• Over the air updates
• Real time embedded operating systems

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