Electronics for Designers DES634
Course Overview
This course will introduce the basics of electronics that are essential for the designers to prototype their conceptualised products. Moreover, a prior knowledge of these basics will help and influence the designers to foresee the functionality and feasibility of the product during ideation phase of the design. This course is structured in such a way that the candidates will learn these basics by practice-based learning. The candidates will be walking through designing a product from the scratch that deals with electronics, mechanics, and software design. Though this course deals with engineering techniques, it is designed to cater candidates from engineering as well as non-engineering backgrounds. The candidates will get exposed to multiple hardware platforms like Arduino, Raspberry Pi, NodeMCU (IoT module). The sessions will prepare the candidates for a clear understanding of the concept of sensors, signals, system, data, recording, processing, analysing, and inferencing. They will also get exposed to PCB design and rapid prototyping. At the end of the course, candidates will be prototyping their own product using their creativity and the skills learned from this course. The winning team will get an opportunity to work with any of the state-of-the-art trackers including eye-gaze tracker, hand-movement tracker, and full-body motion tracker.
Candidates will have access to TRON (Mechatronics Design Studio) at Department of Design, for practicing as well as building prototypes for their project.
a. Course Objectives:
o Introduce candidates to basic electronics
o Train them in Arduino
o Train them in using sensors and actuators
o Get hands-on in building hardware prototypes
o Learn the concepts by doing projects
b. Course Content:
Introduction to Machines
• Machines
• Hardware Products
• Software Products
Electricity
• Electricity
• Charge (q)
• Current (I)
• Potential (Volt)
• Voltage (V)
• Load/Resistance (Ohm) Multimodal Interaction
Ohms Law
• Current (I)
• Voltage (V)
• Load/Resistance (Ohm)
• Ohm’s Law
Components
• AC/DC currents
• Circuits
• Active and Passive devices
• Polarity
• Resistors
• DC Power Sources (Batteries)
KVL, KCL
• Series and Parallel Resistors
• Series and Parallel circuits
• KCL and KVL
• How to use breadboard
• How to use multimeter
Sensors, Actuators, Microcontroller
• Sensors
• Actuators
• Arduino
Wireless connectivity (IoT)
• Socket Programming
• Wired communication
• Wireless communication
• Applications
Mechanism
• Motion
• Mechanisms
PCB Design
• PCB design tool (Eagle)
• Printing
• Etching
• Drilling
• SMD Soldering
Final Project
• Pick up a problem statement
• Bill of Materials and procurement
• Prototyping
• Project review meetings
This is a sample prototype of a laser tracker I developed for interacting with large displays. [Link]
Lecture Notes