March 20, 2018 - Logic Gates and Watson

Entrance Ticket - This might be fun... https://www.meetup.com/IBM-Code-Bay-Area-Meetup/events/248451510/

• 1.       STEM College Gateway Program (flyer attached) will be taught here at SVCTE during the summer for 30 students. There is a mandatory information night on March 28^th at 6:00 pm in the Hub. Students earn college credit for algebra. Students must sign up at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/stem-college-gateway-tickets-43898056268 The program is from June 18-July 26.
  2.       STRIVE internships for 20 students and the application deadline is April 16^th. The interviews will be hosted at Silicon Valley CTE on June 11-13^th. The position begins June 18-July 21.
  
  
  3.       Santa Clara Valley Water District internships for 12 students in various departments. Students will earn $15 per hour. The interviews will be hosted here at SVCTE April 23-27^th. The starting date of the internship is June 18^th.
  
   

Class Agenda:

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

• 7:40 - 8:40 - - Logic Gates
• Lecture on DIP Chips
• What to turn in as the IC assignment ?
  1) screen shot of your Logic.ly logic design
  2) screen shot of your TinkerCAD design doing the same thing as your Logic.ly
  3) IC dialog box text telling me what your circuit is doing
   
• Make a design on https://logic.ly/demo/ that uses 2-4 AND gates, 2-4 OR gates and  if you want an INV or 2.  Think about some type of safety control that could have  the following:
• Emergency Stop
• Operator On/Off
• Gate Closed
• Robot Diagnostic OK
• Power Good
• What Else?
• Not all of these are the same priority Signals, and it's not one giant AND gate tree... 
• Now lets Build them in vertual gates on a bread board.   Tinker CAD https://www.tinkercad.com/

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Python Code
• If you still need to turn in any Python assignments do that. 
• if not,write me a new piece of code that does something cool... You can even find code on the interweb, but you will need to be able to explain how it works.
• like make the blue tooth part of this work but with a Raspberry Pi 
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Raspberry-Pi-Bluetooth-LE-Controller-for-NeoPixels/
• http://www.instructables.com/id/Arduino-Bluetooth-Car-Control-4-X-4/
• TODAY Turn in your code as a fileName.txt and in the IC text dialog what you are doing and what your code does. -  IC assignment

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

March 19, 2018 - Logic Gates

Entrance Ticket - ABB Self-contained thermosyphon heat exchanger for power converters

•  Cut and paste the following questions into the Mechatronics Entry Ticket Google Form and Answer them 50-100 words
• What is are Thermosyphons? 
• Which is better at cooling? Water, Thermosyphons, or Air (Heat Sink)
• Answer here   

Class Agenda:

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

• 7:45 - 8:05 - Logic Quiz

• 8:05 - 8:20 -Python Code

• 8:20 - 9:20 - Open Lab - Robot Project -  
• Your EXIT-Ticket Progress Report Form <-- Every team member needs to fill this out
• Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

March 16, 2018 - Rainy Friday

Entrance Ticket - Logic Gates

•  copy this Logic Circuit down in your lab book... and solve it

Class Agenda:

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

• 7:40 - 8:20 - - Python Coding Challenge

• Python Lab - Binary Register

• 8:20 - 9:20 -  Open Lab - Robot Project - 

• Your Progress Report Form <-- Every team member needs to fill this out.

• Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post

9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

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March 15, 2018 - Summer Reading?

Entrance Ticket - Humble Book Bundle: A.I. by Packt

•  Get Building Machine Learning Systems with Python, Mastering Java Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence with Python, Deep Learning with TensorFlow, and more!
• http://www.steamclown.org/mechatronics/library/classRestrictedContent/AI-DeepLearning/artificialintelligencewithpython.pdf
• Last Chance for Industry Job Shadow Day Signups -- If you want to go on the Job shadow next Wed March 21, you need to talk to me today!!!!!!!!!!!!

Class Agenda:

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

• 7:40 - 8:20 - Logic Gates
• Digital Introduction
• https://logic.ly/demo/

• 8:20 - 8:40 - Python Coding Challenge
• Python Lab - Binary Register

• 8:40 - 9:20 - Open Lab - Robot Project - 
• Your Progress Report Form <-- Every team member needs to fill this out.
• Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

March 14, 2018 - HACKADAY Projects - Who Wants To Win?

Entrance Ticket - Donors Choose Campaign - How Much Do We Still Need? 

Fire Breathing SD Cards for RaspberryPI

• What is our next step?

2018 Hackaday Prize: Build Hope. Design the Future.

• This is the fifth year for the Hackaday Prize, a contest that challenges our global community to build something that matters.  We're giving away over $200,000 this year, with $50,000 going to the Grand Prize winner! This year, we want you to Build Hope, and we have five challenge rounds that kick off today and end in October. The challenges are:
  
  • Open Hardware Design Challenge (today (!!) -- April 23) // Design the best plan possible for the boldest idea you can consider. No prototypes are required for this challenge, only pictures, charts, and theory.
  • Robotics Module Challenge (April 23 -- June 4) // Build a module that can be used in robotics projects across the world, and show your module functioning in a robotics application.
  • Power Harvesting Challenge ( June 4 -- July 16) // Build a module that harvests ambient power for various applications and show your module powering a project.
  • Human-Computer Interface Challenge (July 16 -- August 27) // Build an innovative interface for humans to talk to machines or machines to talk to humans.
  • Musical Instrument Challenge (August 27 -- October 8) // Build a module, interface, or full instrument that evolves or goes far beyond modern music instrumentation.
  In addition to these challenges, we have $4,000 that we're giving away to fund projects that our community likes the most.  At the end of our first challenge (Open Hardware Design), the most liked projects will be paid out $1 per like (max $200 per project) until our funding pool runs dry.

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:00 - Entry Ticket - 30 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 8:00 - 8:30 - Logic Gates

• 8:30 - 9:20 - Open Lab - Robot Project - 
• Your Progress Report Form <-- Every team member needs to fill this out.
• Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

March 13, 2018 - Hey How Is It Going? Are You Going To Be Happy To See Me Wednesday?

Entrance Ticket - Let's play with logic.ly

•  Go to https://logic.ly/demo/ 
• You may need to enable Adobe Flash, Click "Yes" 
• Then say "allow" 
• Watch this YouTube Instruction Video
• Build a logic circuit, take a screen shot and turn it in... but first...
• Find a Pharmacy student, and show them how this works, explain how logic gates work, and then help them make a circuit too... and as a comment in the IC assignment, put the name of your cool new Pharmacy friend. 

 









my new Pharmacy friend is Miss Helena Polanco



Class Agenda:

• 7:30-8:00 - Entry Ticket - 30 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 8:00 - 8:30 - - Knots For Life  <Substitute Teacher, There is a bag of ropes next to my desk.  Please hand them out and have the students pair up and lean at least 3 of these knots.  Have them show you that they can. - 30 min>
• Students, Please pair up... Yes Every one get a partner.  Don't whip the ropes around... learn a different 3 knots than you did before.  Use your Phone, or computer to take a picture of you and your knots... and to IC as an IC assignment.

• 8:30 - 9:20 - Open Lab - Robot Projects Please Submit a Blog post

• 9:20 - 9:30 - Cleanup

March 12, 2018 - Happy Monday, sorry I'm not here and you have a Sub... Now get to work!!!

Entrance Ticket - Lets Design Our Mechatronics Class Tri-Fold Board

<Substitute Teacher, at the bell, please take roll and then put students into teams of 2 for them to discuss this project - 20 min>

•  Take a look at the Assignment Quiz, and get with a partner... Yes, Stand up and every one get a partner that maybe you have not worked with before.  This Project is to think about, and plan a small simple, but cool interactive demo to be mounted on our class Tri-Fold.  Think Interactive Science Project.  Each small demo gets about 6-10 inches square.  We will pick a few of the best.
• Assignment Quiz 

 

 

Class Agenda:

• 7:30-7:50 - Entry Ticket - 20 min (see top of Blog for today)

• 7:50 - 8:10 - Retake the Binary Quiz until you get 100%... Do not use a Calculator on the web... or the computer... do this by hand using the information found in the quiz links
• link to binary2Decimal quiz
• link to decimal2Binary quiz

<Substitute Teacher, The Students have a Robot project blog page that they should be updating.  They can also do some work on thier robot project if they have the parts they need.  if not they should be working on the "Next Steps" for their project. This is team discussions and work on the blog  - 20 min>

• 8:10 - 8:30 - Open Lab - Robot Projects Please take a few minutes to review where you are with our project.  Update your Project page with at least 2-3 more "Next Steps"

• 8:30 - 9:00 - Knots For Life 

<Substitute Teacher, There is a bag of ropes next to my desk.  Please hand them out and have the students pair up and lean at least 3 of these knots.  Have them show you that they can. - 30 min>

• Students, Please pair up... Yes Every one get a partner.  Don't whip the ropes around... learn a different 3 knots than you did before.  Use your Phone, or computer to take a picture of you and your knots... and share it with me from your Google Docs.  I'll add this to IC later.

<Substitute Teacher, The Students need to log into their job ready skills accounts. Have them put all their Robot Project equipment away first. - 25 min>

• 9:00 - 9:25 -  professional Development
• Put all your Robot project, Raspberry Pi, etc away
• Work on the first  to Job Ready Career Skills at www.jobreadycareerskills.com
  
  
  • Do at least 2-3 more modules today.. 
  • You should be done with Workplace Ethics Lessons and almost finished with the Personal Characteristics Lessons.  Try to Finish module today. Personal Characteristics Lessons
  •  and then work on the Employer Expectations Lessons

• 9:25 - 9:30 - Cleanup