Fall 2018 Lectures
This page contains links to individual lectures for the Fall 2018 version of ME 120. Much of the same material is also available on the Course Topics web page, where the links to topics are organized by concept, not by the order in which the material was presented in class.
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Lecture 2: Power consumption in resistors. Resistors in series and parallel
Lecture 3: Multimeters, breadboards, resistor codes
Lecture 4: Arduino LED circuit. Plotting in Excel
Lecture 5:
In-class Quiz 1, Arduino variables and built-in functions
Lecture 6: Voltage dividers, potentiometers and photoresistors. More Arduino programming
Lecture 7: Pulse-width modulation (PWM). Introduction to the breathing LED project
Lecture 8: Loops. Servo motors. Introduction to the desktop fan project
Lecture 9: User-defined Arduino functions. 2D drawings in Solidworks
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Lecture 12: Design of structure for the desktop fan. Button input in Arduino programs
Lecture 13: Bending of acrylic parts. Introduction to the pump project. 3D modeling in Solidworks. Introduction to milling machines.
Lecture 14: Linear regression. Hands-on work on the desktop fan projects
Lecture 15: Student presentations of fan project. More linear regression
Lecture 16:
In-class Quiz 2. Least squares regression. Pump body fabrication.
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