Class 8

Material Covered This Week

• Midterm presentations – we’ll see and discuss everyone’s  midterm projects this week.

Assignments for next class

Review the material to be covered next week, and  come to next class with questions:

• Controlling High-Current Loads
• DC Motors: The Basics
• Controlling Stepper Motors
• Related Videos. These cover the same material as the notes above:
  • Meet the Motors
  • Transistors
  • Controlling a DC Motor’s Speed with a Transistor
  • Controlling a DC Motor with an H-Bridge
• The following videos cover additional material on stepper motors that we’ll cover next week, time permitting:
  • Stepper Motor Intro
  • Controlling a Unipolar Stepper Motor
  • Controlling a Bipolar Stepper Motor with an H-Bridge 
  • Stepper Motor Drives

Blog Post for next class

• Final project concept – Read the assignment brief for the final project. The project will be due in week 14, with several in-progress milestones to complete in the weeks before that. Brainstorm some concepts for your final project. You don’t have to commit to these, just come up with a few ideas in which you are interested. Write about them in your blog. Include a brief description and an illustration.