Week 1 and 2

First weeks actually in groups. 2 weeks before this was intro meeting. Week after was deciding groups etc.

Goals for this semester

• Print 1-2 dumb designs as place holder and simple emotive device
  • Integrate camera?
• Have 1 single source of power instead of 2 - 19V 4.74A and 12V 6A (Check if those numbers are correct)
  • Go off what Ryan told me to look at (voltage dividers and buck converters) and see what I can do

Electrical research

• Voltage divider is simply making one path into 2
  • Voltage divider - generally used to scale a voltage so that it can be sensed/detected/analysed more easily.
    • Drawbacks--
      1. there is always current flowing through the resistors so lots of waste due to heat
      2. The divider can't source any significant current. If you start drawing current, it changes the divider ratio, and things don't go as planned
  • Voltage regulator - designed to provide a fixed voltage regardless of its input. This is what you want to use to provide power to other circuitry
  • Buck converter -