SMA Robotics Elective

SMA Robotics Elective - Assignments

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Day - Date	In-Class	Home Assignment
Beginning of Q3
Day 1 - January 23, 2008	Course Introduction Chapter 1 – Welcome Robot Inventor! Chapter 2 – Where to Obtain Tools and Parts	Homework: Read chapter 3 & 4
Day 2 - January 25	Chapter 3 – Safety Chapter 4 – Digital Multimeter	Homework: Read chapters 5 & 6
Day 3 - January 29	Chapter 5 - Numbers and Units Chapter 6 - Robot Line-following	Homework: Read chapters 7 & 8
Day 4 - January 31	Chapter 7 - Nine-Volt Batteries Chapter 8 – Clips and Test Leads	Homework: Read chapter 9
Day 5 - February 4	Chapter 9 - Resistors	None
Day 6 - February 6	Chapter 10 - LEDs Chapter 11 - Building and Testing a Power Indicator Circuit	None
Day 7 - February 8	Review of Chapter 1 through 11	Study for Test 1
Day 8 - February 13	Chapter 1 through 11 test	Read chapters 21 & 22
February 15	School's closed (Rain Day)	None
Day 9 - February 20	Introduction to soldering (Day 1)	None
February 22	School's closed (Ice/Rain Day)	None
Day 10 - February 26	Introduction to soldering (Day 2)	None
Day 11 - February 28	Read chapter 12 and 13 Create PowerPoint	None
Day 12 - March 3	Introduction to soldering (Day 3)	None
Day 13 - March 5	Introduction to soldering (Day 4) Mini-soldering project	Read chapters 12 and 13 if you have not read them already
Day 15 - March 7	Chapter 12 - Solderless Prototyping Chapter 13 - Solderless Breadboard Setup	None
Day 16 - March 11	Soldering	None
Day 17 - March 13	Vex	None
Day 18 - March 17	Soldering and Vex	None
Day 19 - March 19	Vex	None
Beginning of Q4
Day 20 - March 30	Chapter 13 - Solderless Breadboard Setup Chapter 14 - Variable Resistors	None
Day 21 - April 2	Chapter 14 - Variable Resistors	Read chapter 15
Day 22 - April 4	Chapter 15 - Comparitors	None
Day 23 - April 8	Chapter 15 - Comparitors (Build circuit from figure 15.5)	Read chapter 16
Day 24 - April 10	Chapter 16 - Transistor Switches	None
Day 25 - April 14	DC motors	None
Day 26 - April 16	Gearhead motors	None
Day 27 - April 18	Molex connectors and soldering	None
Day 28 - April 22	Molex connectors and soldering	None
Day 29 - April 24	Circuit layout on perf-board	None
Day 30 - April 28	Circuit layout on perf-board	None
Day 31 - April 30	Soldering for line-following robot	None
Day 32 - May 2	Soldering for line-following robot	None
Day 33 - May 6	Soldering for line-following robot	Stay after if more time is needed
Day 34 - May 8	Soldering for line-following robot	Stay after if more time is needed
Day 35 - May 12	Trouble shooting and body construction	Stay after if more time is needed
Day 36 - May 14	Trouble shooting and body construction	Stay after if more time is needed
Day 37 - May 16	Final calibration and trouble shooting	None

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