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Microcontrollers programming

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Tutorial 1
Discussion of the aim of the subject, conditions for passing the course. Basic physics knowledge about electricity, laws, components.
- Materials
- Tasks
  - Read / watch all the materials from Materials section. Know the answers for questions related to topics given in You should know section.
- You should know: After this class you should know:
  - The concept of electricity.
  - Voltage, current, resistance and their relationships.
  - Electronics workshop.
  - Basic components (resistor, capacitor, LED).
Tutorial 2
How to power an electronic device.
- Materials
- Tasks
  - Mandatory: Build and test at least basic linear voltage regulator circuit.
  - Mandatory: Create a schemat of the circuit you made.
  - Optional: Build and test linear voltage regulator application: for example circuit for increasing output voltage (adjusting output of fixed regulators) or battery backed-up regulated supply
- After this classes you should know
  - How to power your device.
- Other resources
  - No other resources.
Tutorial 3
How to communicate devices with different logic levels.
- Materials
  - Different voltage level coexistence
- Tasks
  - Create a voltage divider from section Send logic signals from 5V device to 3.3V device.
  - Use the Arduino module to perform the test described in Potentiometer. In the test, you use a potentiometer (which is an adjustable voltage divider) to gradually increase / decrease the voltage. The purpose of the test is to check at what voltage the state of the digital pin changes from HIGH to LOW and vice versa.
- After this classes you should know
  - How to use different voltage levels.
  - How to use analog and digital pins.
- Other resources
  - No other resources.
Tutorial 4
Pull resistors: how to "initialize" microcontroller's pins.
- Materials
- Tasks
- After this classes you should know
  - What are pull resistors, why we need them and how we can use them.
- Other resources
  - No other resources.
Tutorial 5
Practical project - simple number guessing game.
- Materials
  - ....
- Tasks
  - Build a circuit to play a simple number guessing game.
- After this classes you should know
  - How to design and complete a simple system according to a given requirements.
- Other resources
  - No other resources.
Tutorial 6
Continuation of previous tutorial
Tutorial 7
Working with LCD (Liquid Crystal Display).
- Materials
  - SparkFun Inventor's Kit, v.3.2, Circuit #15 LCD (page 77)
  - LCD Custom Character Generator
- Tasks (one of them)
  - Update a simple number guessing game to use LCD.
  - Display bar on LCD and control it with two button: plus (to inceasy it) and minus (to decrease it).
- After this classes you should know
  - How to use LCD.
- Other resources
  - No other resources.
Tutorial 8
Working with RTC DS3231.
- Materials
  - LiquidCrystal I2C
- Tasks
  - Display current time on LCD (via I2C).
- After this classes you should know
  - How to use RTC.
  - How to use LCD with I2C converter.
- Other resources
  - No other resources.
Tutorial 9
PWM
- Materials
- After this classes you should know
  - What PWM is.
  - How you can use PWM.
Tutorial 10
Working with analog component: photoresistor. Resistor ladder.
- Materials / topics:
  - Simple circuit.
  - Simple circuit + potentiometer to adjust switching treshold.
  - Missing pins (part 1: The resistor ladder)
  - Resistor ladder
- After this classes you should know
  - How to read data from photoresistor.
  - What is a resistor ladder and how to use it.
Tutorial 11
Shift register
- Materials / topics:
  - SN74HC595 IC data sheet
- After this classes you should know
  - How to work with shift register.

Materials