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Soldering & Arduino Programming

Rich McCue

rmccue@uvic.ca

McPherson Library A318c

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MakeAnything.opened.ca

RichMcCue.com

Topic 6

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Outline for Today

  • Class Check-in & Q&A (10 min)
  • Quick review key concepts.
  • Hands on: Test MP3 player to make sure it’s still working (15 min)
  • Hands on: Practice soldering test pieces (15 min)
  • Break time (10 min)
  • Hands on: Solder MP3 player without breadboard (90 min)
  • Blog Critical Reflection on today’s topic (20 min)

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I’m Thankful For…

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Any Questions from Last Class?

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Signet Rings for Mold Making

In order to increase our chances of success creating a silicone mold, we need to make the minimum thickness of our rings no less than 3mm.

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  • Bottom thickness = 3mm+
  • Signet “dent” = 2mm
  • No curve from the top of the signet ring to the bottom (a straight edge will make things easier)

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Arduino Key Concepts

Sensors

Output

Resistors

Programming

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Practice soldering test pieces

(15 min)

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Test MP3 player to make sure it’s still working

(15 min)

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Break Time

(10 min)

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Solder MP3 player without bread board (90 min)

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Critical Reflection

Blog about the following (including one or more pictures and/or videos):

  1. Your experience soldering your MP3 player
  2. Can you think of any ways that the other prototyping tools we’ve already learned about (laser cutter & 3D printer) could be used in conjunction with an Arduino board?
  3. Continue brainstorming ideas for your major project (no decision on your final project need to be made at this time, and you may decide to do something else later in the course)

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Workshop Badges

If you’d like to earn a DSC badge, email screenshots or photos of 3 projects to dscommons@uvic.ca

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Hands on Lab Time:

Topic 6 on class website