Aug 31, 2017 - FlexFactor, C++ and Electronic Lab Time

I have failed... please look at yesterdays blog for any links we need today....

Entrance Ticket - work quietly on your Electronics Engineering Fundamentals

• I want you to finish watching the Electronics Engineering Technology Fundamentals Class by Friday  Sept 8

Aug 30, 2017 - FlexFactor, C++ and Electronic Lab Time

Entrance Ticket - work quietly on your Electronics Engineering Fundamentals

• I want you to finish watching the Electronics Engineering Technology Fundamentals Class by Friday  Sept 8

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:20 - Flex Factor Dual Enrollment with Evergreen Valley College

• 8:20 - 8:40 - C++ YourFirstProgram
  
  • Sign in - https://www.netacad.com/
  • Start  working Up to Section 1.2.1 (It's me, your first program)
  • See code example on my GitHub https://github.com/jimTheSTEAMClown 
  • click on the Mechatronics-C-Programming
  • then click on   cisco-c-source-01-02-01-yourFirstProgram
  • Then I always click "raw" to get a text only version that I can cut and paste... 
  • http://codepad.org/
  • http://cpp.sh/
  • https://ideone.com/ 
• 8:40 - 9:20 - Parallel Circuits introduction

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 29, 2017 - C++ and Electronic Lab Time

Entrance Ticket - Humble Book Bundle - Electronics and Programing

• Read about an Electronics resource, that you can get for $1, $8 or $16
• Not required, but just a useful option. 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:40 - C++ YourFirstProgram
• Sign in - https://www.netacad.com/
• Start  working Up to Section 1.2.1 (It's me, your first program)
• See code example on my GitHub https://github.com/jimTheSTEAMClown 
• click on the Mechatronics-C-Programming
• then click on   cisco-c-source-01-02-01-yourFirstProgram
• Then I always click "raw" to get a text only version that I can cut and paste... 
• • http://codepad.org/
  • http://cpp.sh/
  • https://ideone.com/ 
   

• 8:40 - 9:20 - -Parallel Circuits introduction

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 28, 2017 - Electronic Lab Time, Printer Loot, and other stuff

Entrance Ticket - Ask me for a Job... 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:40 - 8:00 - Electronics Fundamentals Udemy Class
  
  • I want you to finish watching the Electronics Engineering Technology Fundamentals Class by Friday  Sept 8

• 8:00 - 8:40 - Reflective Object Sensor-QRE1113 LAB

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Printer Loot

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 25, 2017 - C Programing Intro, PhotoDiode, and other stuff

Entrance Ticket - Verify you can get logged into Cisco NetAcademy

•  Click the Terms & Conditions, and take the survey, and get to the point where you can open the first lesson for Chapter 0

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
• Student Packet  - Turn them in
• If you have not taken my class Survey, please do
• Did you get an Email from jburnham.metroed@gmail.com?
• Infinite Campus - https://metropolitanca.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/metropolitan_edu.jsp
• Did you get an Email from Cisco Net Academy? Lets sign in - https://www.netacad.com/ 
• - 

• 7:40 - 7:50 - Cisco Netlab C Class Registration and Start ClassClass 
• Resource Page - C & C++ Programing Class Resource Page - Mechatronics

• 7:50 - 8:30 - AC/DC Electronics Lab
• Add an LED to your Circuit
• Connect in series with your POT
• Connect in series with your Photoresistor
  
• -
  

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Lab Time - You can do 1 or the following
• Work on your AC/DC Electronics Lab and finish any work you still need to do
• Udemy - I want you to finish watching the Electronics Engineering Technology Fundamentals Class by next week Friday Sept 1.  I will have an IC quiz for you to take then.
• Ask me for a Class Setup Job
• Work on you printer disassembly

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 24, 2017 - C Programing Intro, PhotoDiode, and other stuff

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)

• Student Packet  - Turn them in
• If you have not taken my class Survey, please do
• Did you get an Email from jburnham.metroed@gmail.com?
• Did you get an Email from Cisco Net Academy? Lets sign in - https://www.netacad.com/  
• Infinite Campus - https://metropolitanca.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/metropolitan_edu.jsp
•  

• 7:40 - 8:20 - Series Circuits Lecture and Lab 

• 8:20 - 8:50 - Intro to C and Cisco NetAcademy 
•  C & C++ Programing Class Resource Page - Mechatronics

• 8:50 - 9:15 - Open Lab Time

• 9:15 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 23, 2017 - Series Circuit Lab and Class Organizing

Entrance Ticket - Did you get an Email from me?  Check the Email you provided in the class Survey...

• Check your Email
• Then also see about a Cisco Net Academy Welcome Email... and sign in to that too...

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
• Student Packet  - Turn them in
• If you have not taken my class Survey, please do
• Did you get an Email from jburnham.metroed@gmail.com?
• Did you get an Email from Cisco Net Academy? Lets sign in - https://www.netacad.com/ 

• 7:40 - 8:00 - Infinite Campus 
• https://metropolitanca.infinitecampus.org/campus/portal/metropolitan_edu.jsp

• 8:00 - 9:15 - Series Circuits Lecture and Lab <--  draft, but still works

• 9:15 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 22, 2017 - Series Circuit Lab and Class Organizing

Entrance Ticket - Move 1-2 monitors from the conference room to front tables 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
• Student Packet  - Turn them in
• If you have not taken my class Survey, please do 

• 7:40 - 8:40 - Series Circuits Lecture and Lab <--  draft, but still works

• 8:40 - 8:50 - Did you get an Email from Cisco Net Academy? Lets sign in - https://www.netacad.com/

• 8:50 - 9:20 - More work to take every last bolt from out of your printer.... 

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 21, 2017 - Solar Eclipse and Manufacturing Jobs

Entrance Ticket - 4 Reasons Manufacturing Jobs Are Returning to the USA

•  List the 4 reasons Manufacturing in coming back
• Do you agree?  Why? Why not?

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
• Student Packet  - Turn them in
• If you have not taken my class Survey, please do 

• 7:45 - 8:00 - - Passwords

• 8:00 - 9:15 - Series Circuits Lecture and Lab <--  draft, but still works

• 9:15 - 9:25 - Room Setup
  

• 9:25 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 18, 2017 - Sign Up for Udemy

Entrance Ticket - Sign Up For Udemy
Udemy - Lets Learn Stuff...

•  Go to www.udemy.com and register. then go to this course:

• https://www.udemy.com/electronics-engineering-technology-fundamentals/learn/v4/overview

• Then listen to lesson 1 Introduction and Lesson 2 Safety

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
• Student Packet  - Turn them in

• 7:45 - 8:00 - Tour of Machine Shop

• 8:00 - 8:15 - Scientific and Engineering Notation

• 8:15 - 9:20 - Lets take a printer apart
• take notes on at least one interesting mechanical section of the printer

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 17, 2017 - Who is Georg Simon Ohm?

Entrance Ticket - Who Is Georg Simon Ohm?
In your own words,  please tell me a few interesting things about Georg Simon Ohm.  What is he most famous for?

• Short paragraph or 4-5 bullet sentences in your log book.
  

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)
• Student Packet  - Turn them in

• 7:45 - 8:00 - What is Your HOPE

• 8:00 - 8:10 - How to Use a Multimeter for Beginners - How to Measure Voltage, Resistance, Continuity and Amps

• 8:10 - 9:25 - Ohms Law Lecture and lab

• 9:25 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 16, 2017 - I think this Robot was trolling us....

Entrance Ticket - Maybe robots are not quite ready to take our jobs just yet... 
but if you look closely at the video, I honestly think it was acting the fool on purpose... just to trick us into complacency... https://www.theverge.com/2017/8/15/16148196/robots-falling-over-likable-boston-dynamics

• Write down a few notes in your Notebook about what you found interesting (3-5 short sentences)
• After Watching the Video, do you thing the robot was trolling us, and was making a mistake on purpose?
• Why do we like robots better when they make mistakes? Why?
• Should robots be allowed to make mistakes or fail? Why or why not?

  Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:45 - 8:00 - Student Packet  - Turn them in
•  More Class Logistics - I have to Pee, I can't Live without my phone, and I'm hungry

• 8:00 - 8:10 - Survey
• 8:10 - 9:00 - Ohms Law Lecture and lab

• 9:00 - 9:20 - Unpack some tools

• 9:25 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Aug 15, 2017 - Student Packets.

Entrance Ticket - Pick a class magazine and pick an interesting article...  

• Pick from the stack at the entry sign in table
• Get your log books (I'll pass them out) 
• Please put your First Name and Last Name on your lab book
• Then write "AM" in the lower left hand corner of box where you put your name
• Write down a few notes in your Notebook about what you found interesting (3-5 short sentences)

  Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 15 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:45 - 8:00 - Student Packet<-- Bring these back signed and complete on Wednesday

• 8:00 - 8:40 - Finish Bread Board and Blink and LED lab
  

• 8:40 - 9:00 - More Class Logistics - I have to Pee, I can't Live without my phone, and I'm hungry

• 9:00 - 9:20 - Unpack some tools

• 9:25 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Mechatronics First Day... Your First Day is My First Day Too...

WoHooooooo... Welcome.

Today is going to be a bit crazy, but lets dive right in. Not sure what we are going to get done, but we will talk about the following:

• Who is Mr. Burnham
• What is Mechatronics is all about
• Probably work on organizing the room...
• Review your student packet <-- Sorry We did not get to that, but will tomorrow
• Maybe play a numbers game <-- Later this week
• Maybe light up an LED <-- Part way there... hope it was fun
• Here is another link to more about how a bread board works

Take a deep breath... You get to build FIRE Breathing Robots this year...