H79.2662 Lecture 4 Credits
Instructor(s): Holoubek
A project needs to be robust. A breadboard is insufficient for this. It's good for initial prototyping, but to really get robust performance, we need to use something with more consistency and stability. For this we turn to printed circuit boards. At the heart of this class, each student acquires the skills necessary to design, prototype and produce a printed circuit board intended to be installed in a piece of the student's choosing. We begin the process with prototyping with breadboards, perforated boards and etched boards. The final circuit is designed using the Eagle PCB software. Other topics covered in this class include: circuit serial programming; the many package types of components and the benefits they add to a circuit; and surface mount soldering using a hot air bath. The project is of the students choosing may be a practical application or an artistic piece that uses the printed circuit board designed for the class.
