Course packet and in-class material

• ⚛ 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"
• ⚛ Prof. Cynthia D'Angelo's fall 2019 presentation: "Collaboration"

Student reports on sensors and other instrumentation issues

• Week 2:
  ⚛ How an electret microphone works (group 2);
  ⚛ How a BME680 measures atmospheric pressure (group 1).
  


• Week 3:
  ⚛ What's inside an LSM9DS1 9-axis accelerometer, and how the device works (group 3);
  ⚛ An introduction to the Arduino Mega 2560 (group 6).
  


• Week 4:
  ⚛ How a successive approximation ADC works (group 7);
  ⚛ How a BME680 measures temperature (group 4).
  


• Week 5:
  ⚛ I2C communication protocol (group 5);
  ⚛ SPI communication protocol (group 8).
  


• Week 6:
  ⚛ How the MCP4725 DAC works (group 1);
  ⚛ Interrupts (group 2);
  


• Weeks 7 & 8: Mid-semester status/progress reports from each group.
  ⚛ Group 1;
  ⚛ Group 2;
  ⚛ Group 3;
  ⚛ Group 4;
  ⚛ Group 5;
  ⚛ Group 6;
  ⚛ Group 7;
  ⚛ Group 8;
  


• Week 9:
  ⚛ Atmel 2560 microcontroller timer modules (group A);
  ⚛ PWM (pulse width modulation) and the PAM8302 amplifier. (group B);
  


• Week 10:
  ⚛ How a BME680 measures humidity (group A);
  ⚛ How the PM2.5 particulates monitor works (group B).
  


• Week 11:
  ⚛ Adafruit's "Ultimate GPS" breakout board and its PPS signal (group A);
  ⚛ How a BME680 measures atmospheric volatile organic compound concentration (group B).
  

Project reports

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