The Details

• Lesson 1 (Updated 10/6/2024)
  Getting Arduino IDE set up. Learning about basic circuits.
  Create our first sketch & learn basic layout skills.

• Lesson 8
  Introduction to digital electronics and logic gates
  • Integrated circuits
• AND|OR|XOR gate logic chips
• Voltage Dividers
• Current Sources
• Transistors: Digging Deeper
• The 555 timer chip
• Discreet 555 Kit
• Current Mirrors

• Introduction to Digital Logic
  • My handout
  • 7400 family IC Table with pinouts/specs/parts
• AND GATES (7408 chip)
  • Using switches Animation
  • AND Gate logic truth table
  • AND Gate using transistors  animation
  • IMAGES
    • AND GATE rear view
• Introduction to Integrated Circuits (IC's)
  • Basic logic gates
  • How logic gates work
• 7408 pinout & DIP package & My Breadboard example
• 7408 dual input AND timing image 1  image 2
• OR GATES (7432 chip)
  • Using switches Animation
  • OR Gate using transistors & animation
  • OR gate logic
• 7432 pinout
• 7432 IC Breadboard example
• IMAGES
  • Front
  • Top
  • Rear
• XOR Gates (7486 chip exclusive OR logic)
  • Pinout and logic
  • XOR with Transistors
    • Breadboard Layout
• NAND GATES (7400 chip) for S-R Flip-Flops/Latches
  • My S-R Latch HANDOUT
  • Switch bounce/noise from push buttons
  • Switch Bounce Demo (SPDT) Closeup
  • S-R Latches (7400 chips) & Switch debouncing circuits (Digi-Key)
  • Animation
  • Interactive demo
  • Nice video explanation
  • My Images
    • Top view
    • Closeup
    • Rear
    • S-R latch stops switch bounce

DIGGING DEEPER INTO INTEGRATED CIRCUITS & THE LM555

• Voltage Dividers & Constant-Current Sources- Since the 555 Timer uses these we need to learn about them first.

  • Show Resistor Calculator (Series/Parallel)

  • My Excel LED resistor calculator

  • My notes with Multisim images

  • Voltage Divider Calculator

    • Series Resistor Circuit

    • Parallel resistor circuit

    • 5v to 3.3v divider for Arduino & Sensor boards

    • 3 Resistor voltage divider (Used in 555 and Arduino circuits)

  • Constant Current Sources Circuits with voltage dividers

    • Current Limiter Revisited (Blinky)

    • 1-BJT Current Model

    • 2-BJT with Diode Bias

    • 3-BJT as a diode Sourcing/Sinking

    • 4-Current Mirror BJT as diode

    • Video demo

• The 555 timer chip video 555 cheat Sheet
  • My LM555 paper (lecture notes/outline)
  • How the 555 works and applications
  • Delay circuits & RC Time constants
  • Time constant Calculator (Digi-Key)
  • Coupling Capacitor Sizing Chart
  • 555 Timer Chart
  • Monostable RC Calculator
• Projects:
  • 1-LED Flasher Handout
  • 2-Blinker Top View
  • 3-Close Up View
  • 4-End View
  • 5-Back View
• Traffic Signal schematic
  • Top View
• Evil Scientist Discreet 555 Kit
  • LM393 & Darlington Pair Relay Driver (Multisim circuits)
    • Darlington Pair Datasheet
  • My Demo article with scope charging/discharging & output square waves
  • Circuit image 1
  • Circuit image 2
  • Circuit image 3
• TTL False triggering Issues

• Lesson 9
  Introduction to operational amplifiers (OP-AMPS)
• Using Comparators
• Introduction to passive and active RC Filters

• Introduction to Op-Amps (LM741 & LM393)
  • Clapper circuit
  • Differentiator
  • Light-dark circuit
  • Peak Detector
• Light-Dependant-Resistors
  • Simple LDR Circuits video
  • Introduction to Comparators & Relay Drivers
    • LM393 LDR Driver
    • LM393 Darlington Pair Relay Driver
    • Without Hysteresis
    • LM393 WITH Hysteresis circuit
    • With Hysteresis Scope Image
    • LM393 Datasheet
    • Practical applications
• OP Amp Demo Board (LM741)
  • Datasheet
  • Working with the 741: My report
    • Annotated Breadboard Layout
    • Images of breadboard (zipped file)
    • Power supply options
      • Measuring voltages
    • 741 Evil Mad Scientist kit images
    • Managing Power supply noise

• Introduction to Filters
• Resistor-Capacitor filter vs voltage divider
• Sensor Signal Processing & Passive RC Filters (My technical report)
• Using filters to clean up knock sensor signals.
• Spreadsheet Cutoff Frequencies
• Active Filters using Op-Amps
  • Examples
  • Filters & Guitar Pedals
• L-C Resonant Filters
  • Series
    • Schematic
    • AC Sweep
• Parallel
  • Schematic
  • At resonance
  • AC Sweep

• Lesson 10
  Introduction to Arduino and C# programming
• Introduction to Visual Studio & Arduino Platform development

• Introduction to Windows© Desktop Programming & SQL Databases
  • GET STARTED HERE:
    • 1-Download & Install Visual Studio
    • 2-Follow my setup guide to customize for our class
  • My Visual Basic E-book can be used for VB & C#.
  • Want to learn more? Check out my Introduction to my C# Class Lessons & videos from my SCC course.
    
• Learning to control Arduino with C# Desktop Applications
  • 1- OnBoard Arduino LED Blink Test (Includes Arduino, C#, & Setup Apps)
  • 2- Arduino & Breadboard LED "Blinky" (Includes Arduino, C#, & Setup Apps)
    • Handout with code
    • Images of Circuit
      
• Adafruit ESP8266 Feather Huzzah board & QV ESP32 Devkit Board
  • Adafruit documentation
  • Be sure to add aRest & aRest.UI libraries to your Arduino IDE through Library Manager.
  • Setup your board in the Arduino IDE (Board URL)
    • Our ESP8266 project demos:
    • 1- Data Entry Part1 (VS project)
    • 2- OnBoard Arduino LED test
    • 3- Arduino Breadboard LED demo ONLY USE UNO Board for this test. Use same VS App as #2 demo.  Get codes here.
  • 4- DHT-11 to PC demo. (How to read temp/humidity data from breadboard to PC)
  • 5-MyFirstESP8266 Web Page
  • 6-Remote Locations Weather Demo (For ESP8266 Huzzah or QV_ESP32 board)

• Bluetooth & Visual Studio Communication Projects for Arduino:
  • Demo 1: C# to UNO Blink breadboard LED
    • Circuit schematic and notes!
    • VS 2022 C# Desktop App
    • Arduino UNO code for demos 1-3.
• Demo 2: BT Arduino Simple Walkthrough (VS desktop app)
• Demo 3: BT Walkthrough for Arduino (Kevin version).
• Introduction to SQL Database apps:
  • Demo: SQL Database Demo C# 3-tier model. (Download zip file and unpack to desktop. With Visual Studio 2022 installed, open folder and double-click on the .SLN file to load app. Then click Run (Green Arrow) on the toolbar. Click help menu in the app main form for features).

• Lesson 11
  Introduction to Microchip Studio & C programming
• Introduction to Arduino and Assembly Language programming
• Learn to mix C++ and assembler in the Arduino IDE
• Sample projects you can build and learn from.

• Introduction to Microchip Studio 7 and C Programming
  • GET STARTED HERE:
  • Download Microchip Studio here. This takes a while so be patient. You only need to include AVR Microcontrollers for our class. Pin to your start and/or taskbar
  • Download the "SimulIDE" simulator here.  Extract. In the \bin folder is the simulide.exe file. Make a shortcut to your desktop to run it. No installer needed.
  • Install AVRDUDE 6.3 to a new folder called C:\AVRDUDE (This uploads C code in MC Studio to UNO board. We may use the version in the Arduino IDE but do this in case we need it.)
  • See my notes on AVRDUDE
    
    
  • START CODING HERE:
• Example program
• Blinky (includes simulator project)
• Light-Bar Demo
• Extreme-Mini board demo project.

• All About assembly language programming (My paper)
• 1-ToggleProject shows how the CPU registers work! Unzip and open in MC Studio & I will show you how to view the registers as we step through each line of code.
• 2-Switching LEDs in the Arduino IDE using C++ and Assembler! (Includes ino sketch and assembly file and short animation)
• 2-Switching LEDs in MC Studio Version
  •  Breadboard Layout for common-cathode LED (R-G-B) for Switching LED demos

• Lesson 12
  Introduction to RF. AM/FM radio, mixers, modulation & demodulation.
• Introduction to LoRa Radio modules.
• Getting to know XBEE radios

• Introduction to Radio
  • Start Here: My paper on AM radio mixers. Includes modulation & demodulation examples.
    • MULTISIM DEMOS: (Unzip and run in Multisim app.)
      • 1- AM Detector
      • 1A- AM Detector with low RC time constant.
      • 1B- AM Detector with HIGH RC time constant.
      • 2-AM Detector with amplifier stage
    • My envelope detector schematic
    • The AD831 mixer datasheet I used in my paper
    • The commercial IF filter I used in my paper.
• Classes of Amplifiers (A, B, AB, D) video
• Transistor amplifier configuration options video
• Adding an audio amplifier to my detector: The Emitter Follower Amplifier video
• My Emitter Follower Stage Circuit: The emitter follower circuit (Multisim)
• My emitter follower amplifier stage schematic
• MY NOTES: How to calculate capacitor value based on frequency and circuit impedance.

• Learning about Low-Power/Long Range radio modules (LoRa)
• Get the Radios I used here.
• Little coil antennas I use
  • 1-See Adafruit for setting up the radios I use here.
  • 2- Get the Radio Head 1.62 library for Arduino IDE 2.2.1 or greater that I used
  • 3-Adafruit drivers download
  • 3-My example transmitter code
  • 4-My example receiver code

• XBEE Radio Projects (for XBEE Pro S1 radios)
  • PowerTail Remote Control (Uses Visual Studio 2022) C# version
    • XBEE config files for programming radios
    • New power relay module works fine with this code
    • XBEE explorer dongle (requires 1 to connect to PC)
    • XBEE adapter board for breadboard