Friday, September 29, 2017

Sept 29 2017 - Learn Something...

Entrance Ticket - MakeSF South Bay Project Build Night at TechShop!
  •  Would this be Fun?  There are always opportunities to learn stuff.  Email this link to your self, and go if you want... If you go, tell me about it... Do a show and tell.
Class Agenda:

  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:40 - 8:00 -Student ID Photos
  • 8:00 - 8:15 -  The Bright, Bright Future of Electronic Engineering
    Please read this article and think about what you might put in your portfolio of things to show a future employer.  Tell me if you think: (and by tell me, I mean, write a short paragraph)
    • Are grades important?  
    • How heavily  do you think employers look at grades vs other skills?
    • What have you already done, that could be added to your portfolio list? 
    • If you were going to show off a project at the maker fair, what would it be?
  •  8:45 - 9:20 - Rube-Goldberg Projects
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, September 28, 2017

Sept 28 2017 - Next Rube-Goldberg Target: Bots and Beverages Oct 4

Entrance Ticket - Why Attend RoboBusiness?
Please open and read about the RoboBussiness Conference I'm going to.  Read the page and Watch the Video on this page http://robobusiness.com/about/event-news/video-why-attend-robobusiness/

Put 3-5 bullet sentences in a google doc and turn it into Infinite Campus.  Turn in by 7:50 Turn in Assignments  Infinite Campus Assignment 

Class Agenda:


  • 7:30-7:50 - Entry Ticket - 15+ min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:50 - 8:00 - What are we going to be doing for the next few weeks
    • Arduino - Getting Started with Sketches
    • More Sensors - Presentation skills
    • Rube-Goldberg for "Bots and Beverages" Oct 4
  • 8:00 - 8:30 - Rube-Goldberg Code
  • 8:40 - 9:20 - Rube-Goldberg - Duct Tape and Superglue
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

Sept 27 2017 - More Rube-Goldberg

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 - 8:30 - Rube-GoldBerg Coding
  • 8:30 - 9:20 - Rube-GoldBerg Duct Tape and Super Glue...
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

Sept 26 2017 - More Rube-Glodberg... Plus... Hey we have a M&M sorter...

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 - 8:30 - Rube-GoldBerg Coding
  • 8:30 - 9:20 - Rube-GoldBerg Duct Tape and Super Glue...
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Monday, September 25, 2017

Sept 25 2017 - Rube-Glodberg Coding and more Duct Tape and Super Glue

Entrance Ticket - Put your name and info on Field Trip Form, then put it in a safe place, to get signed and returned to me. 

Class Agenda:

  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:40 - 8:30 - Rube-GoldBerg Coding
  • 8:30 - 9:20 - Rube-GoldBerg Duct Tape and Super Glue...
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Friday, September 22, 2017

Sept 22 2017 - Rube-Goldberg Code

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 - 8:30 - Rube-Goldberg Code
    • Due today - turn in a current version of your Rube-Goldberg Arduino Code
  • 8:30 - 9:20 - Rube-Glodberg Project Duct Tape and Super Glue...
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Sept 21 2017 - Relays

http://www.steamclown.org/steamClownEducation/arduino/arduinoRelay.pdf

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Sept 20 2017 - Finish ASFAB and then Rube-Goldberg

Entrance Ticket - Get your ASFAB Answer sheet and correct test booklet
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Class Agenda:

  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:40 - 8:30 - Finish ASFAB testing
  • 8:30 - 9:20 - Arduino Rube-Goldberg project
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Monday, September 18, 2017

Sept 18 2017 - Rube-GoldBerg

Entrance Ticket - Look at & sign up for a free Instructables Class... like maybe this Robot Class 

  • Ask me about ASVAB Testing this  week
  • I still need 2 Student Info Forms...
Class Agenda:

  • 7:30-7:50 - Entry Ticket - 20 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:50 - 8:20 - Presentations
    • Project Presentation Rubric
    • If you are done, I want you to make sure to finish module 1, 2, 3 and take the quiz and module tests. Sign in - https://www.netacad.com/
    • If you are done with all of that, then any other IC assignment you don't have done...  
  • 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Lab time to work on Rube-GoldBerg
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, September 14, 2017

Sept 14 2017 - Cassini Spacecraft

Entrance Ticket - Cassini Spacecraft Makes Its Final Approach to Saturn

  • Tell me about the Cassini Spacecraft.  Turn this in to IC
    • Tell me at least 3 things you found interesting about the mission?
    • Tell me at least 3 thinks we have learned, or will learn?
    • How would robots help us in space and space exploration? 
Class Agenda:

Wednesday, September 13, 2017


Entrance Ticket - Read the 2 article and answer these 4 questions



  1. What are the Members of the European Parliament concerned about?
  1. Why are they proposing we provide Robots with legal status?
  1. Pick a side... Are Robots different than any other mammals? How or how not?
  1. Should Robots have "kill Switches"?  Why?
Turn in your answer into IC using a link to a Google Doc 

Class Agenda:


  • 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:45 - 8:15 - Catch up on Cisco Academy Class.  I want you to finish module 1, 2, 3 and take the quiz and module tests by Friday.
    • Review modules 1,2,3 and take the Quiz and test for each module

Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Entrance Ticket - go sign up for https://www.build-electronic-circuits.com/welcome-to-my-newsletter/, and then look around the site
  • enter an email, and confirm email, and then take a look at the stuff on the site.  There are lessons and lab and projects... 
  • Take this survey on the SVCTE information Assembly

Class Agenda:


  • 7:30-7:40 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:40 - 8:10 - Catch up on Cisco Academy Class.  I want you to finish module 1, 2, 3 and take the quiz and module tests by Friday.



















  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Monday, September 11, 2017

Sept 11 2017 - C Control Structures, Reading Data Sheets

Entrance Ticket -Study unit 2.4  and 3.1.1 in the Cisco C class

Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 9:00 - 9:20 - Open Lab
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Friday, September 8, 2017

Sept 8 2017 - Student Orientation, and Debuging Arduino code

Entrance Ticket - IC assignment Can I paste a Link in the IC editor?
  • Then do any other IC assignments that you still need to do.
  • For the Cisco C++ assignment, try just cutting and pasting text from Notepad
Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:45 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:45 - 8:15 - Student Orientation
  • 8:30 - 9:20 - Open Lab Time
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Sept 7 2017 - Electronic Project and More Arduino Introduction

Entrance Ticket - Look at IC and if you still need to turn in your Technology Project , please do so... if you have already done that, then continue to work on "Electronics Fundamentals Udemy Class


Class Agenda:
  • 7:30-7:50 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 8:50 - 9:20 - Open Lab
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Sept 5 2017 - Happy Tuesday, Flex, IC, Arduino

Entrance Ticket - - Pick up a Magazine or find a Technology Project web site, and start picking a project you thing you might want to build.

Class Agenda:


  • 7:30-7:50 - Entry Ticket - 20 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 7:50 - 8:30 - - Time Management
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

Friday, September 1, 2017

Sept 1, 2017 - FlexFactor, Infinate Campus, and Binary Numbers

Entrance Ticket - Open the Cisco NetAcad and review modules 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3, and then do lab 1
Class Agenda:

  • 7:30-7:50 - Entry Ticket - 10 min (see top of Blog for today)
  • 8:15 - 9:20 - Open Lab
  • 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup