Slides shown by the Instructor in class

• ⚛   Week 1 - Intro to the course

• ⚛   Week 2 - Homework discussion & next steps

• ⚛   Week 3 - DAQ basics & next steps

• ⚛   Week 4 - Details on W5 presentation & next steps

• ⚛   Week 7 - Details on Project Report & next steps

• ⚛   Week 9 - Details on Final Project Report Drafting

• ⚛   Week 11 - Details on Peer Review

• ⚛   Week 12 - Details on Course Last 2 Weeks

Guidelines for final report and presentation

• ⚛   End-game guidelines

Course packet and in-class material

• ⚛  GG's data logger schematic for spring 2021
• ⚛  Very simple circuit with an Arduino, a BME680, and an LCD. (spring 2021, in class, week 1)
• ⚛ Course packet, including a C++/Python refresher
• ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2018 "How to Present a Physics Talk"
• ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2019 "How to Write a Technical Report"
• ⚛ Celia Elliott's fall 2020 "How to Get Started if You Hate to Write"
• ⚛ Celia Elliott's spring 2021 "How to Get Started if You Hate to Write"
• ⚛ Prof. Cynthia D'Angelo's fall 2019 presentation: "Collaboration"

Spring 2023 student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues

• Week 2:
  ⚛ BME680 T/P/RH sensors - Group 5
  ⚛ DS3231 Precision RTC - Group 3


• Week 3:
  ⚛ Ultimate GPS - Group 1
  ⚛ MCP4725 DAC - Group 4


• Week 4:
  ⚛ LSM9DS1 - Group 2
  ⚛ ATmega 2560 Microcontroller - Group 8


• Week 6:
  ⚛ DPS - Group 2
  ⚛ Plantower - Group 7

Spring 2023 Week 5 project reports

List of items: download here

Fall 2022 student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues

The following reports should comprise PowerPoint files of about ten slides, and will be presented by all members of the group. See the Groups & projects page for the list of which group numbers are associated with which projects.

• Week 2:
  ⚛ The Atmel ATmega2560 microcontroller. Group 1


• Week 3:
  ⚛ Electret microphones. Group 2


• Week 4:
  ⚛ BME680 T/P/RH sensors. Group 3


• Week 5:
  ⚛ I2C. Group 4


• Week 6:
  ⚛ GPS. Group 5


• Week 7:
  ⚛ How an LSM9DS1 “9-axis” accelerometer works. Group 1


• Week 8:
  ⚛ How a successive approximation ADC works. Group 2


• Week 9:
  ⚛ Interrupts. Group 3

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Project reports

• ⚛ I will post these at the end of the term.