Quick links: Campuswire
Welcome to Tufts EN 1-2, "Engineering in the Kitchen"! See the about page to learn what this course is all about. For information about other Tufts EN 1 offerings, check out the SoE First Year page.
Schedule and links
Thursday, September 9 - Welcome and introduction
Class is at 4:30pm in the Sophia Gordon multipurpose room. You don't need to do anything before class. Just show up!
Before our next class period on Tuesday:
Read the learning guide
Sign up on Campuswire (see email invite)
Complete welcome survey (link posted on Campuswire)
Tuesday, September 14 - Electrical current, resistance, and power
Thursday, September 16 - Looking at wall power, introduction to iFixit project
Start work on project 1
Tuesday, September 21 - Disassembling devices and drawing schematics
Thursday, September 23 - Introduction to Python
Tuesday, September 28 - Breadbaords, Python on a microcontroller
Thursday, September 30 - MicroPython I/O, state machines
Tuesday, October 5 - Displays and capacitive touch
Thursday, October 7 - Project 1 show and tell
Tuesday, October 12 - Sensing stuff by measuring voltages
Thursday, October 14 - Microwave panel demo day
Tuesday, October 19 - PWM and output control
Thursday, October 21 - Audio and the frequency domain
Tuesday, October 26 - Feedback control
Thursday, October 28 - Project 3 work
Pumpkin demo @ Nolop Haunted House on Friday 10/29.
Tuesday, November 2 - Connecting to the Internet
Thursday, November 4 - MQTT
Tuesday, November 9 - Plotting data
Tuesday, November 16 - Building a web server
Thursday, November 18 - Building a web server, part 2
Tuesday, November 23
Project 4 show and tell