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Training Materials and Demonstrations

  • Maker Coin Activity
  • PCB Layout
  • PCB Milling

Many electronics vendors and websites have awesome educational tutorials that range from component identification to full design assistance. 

Educational tutorials from Digi-Key  Inside the "Digi-Key Educational" web page you can navigate to resources and find an incredible number of helpful circuit designs, calculators and videos. One important resource is the Digi-Key Tutorial on Soldering

Adafruit  Adafruit is another great place to find projects and information. Adafruit has many project that are easy to put together as well as understand. They have great libraries that even electrical design software packages refer to. 

Arduino A must visit is the Arduino website. If you are into programming or, robotics or just like to make things happen this is a must see. 

Sparkfun also has a great variety of learning material, including both Tutorials and Concepts

Maker Coin Activity 

You must make this coin to demonstrate your ability to use the 3D printers.

SPECS

  1. Develop your Chip in a 3D Modeling Software.  Using a text tool to cut your last name and student ID number into the chip.  The text size may fluctuate around 0.2in in height and will have a depth of cut of 0.1in.
  • Video
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3O0wTlIRRY&feature=emb_logo
  1. Export your file to an .STL file
  1. Save the GCode file onto an SDcard, and upload it to the 3D Printer to print it.

PCB Layout in Eagle 

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59tpNGn3L2o&feature=emb_logo

Machining Your PCB with the Bantam PCB Mill

 Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZP8MId3km0&feature=emb_logo

Tutorials and Helpful Links

Many electronics vendors and websites have awesome educational tutorials that range from component identification to full design assistance.

Digi-Key Tutorial on Soldering
Other Educational tutorials from Digi-Key 

Sparkfun Tutorials and Concepts

Adafruit 

Arduino