ECE376

ECE 376: Embedded Systems
Lab Kits

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Instructions for how to build your circuit board

Lab Kits: Each student taking ECE 376 is required to build their own evaluation board.
This gives you experience soldering a circuit board – a skill you’ll use in senior design (and elsewhere)

The resulting boards allow you to test our your hardware and software
They make the course a lot more fun: students tend to get a kick out of seeing motors move, lights respond, measuring how fast a motor is spinning, in practice rather than just simulation
They make the course a lot more effective: things like interrupts are hard to understand unless you actually use them
If you’ve never soldered before, don’t worry: that’s why the instructor and TA’s are here. If your board dies or refuses to work, just bring it to me (Glower). I can usually get the boards to work after a few minutes of debugging. If all else fails, I have some spare boards.

Purchasing Lab Kits: Lab kits cost $65 in cash or checks made out to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). (SWE buys parts in bulk, which saves you a lot of money.) Bring a check for $65 made out to Society of Women Engineers (or cash) to room 201A in the ECE building to buy a kit. Parts cost around $100 if you try to order parts in quantity of one.

Lab Kit Parts: Contents of the lab kits are listed below. The source of each item varies year by year based upon where we can find the lowest price in quantities of 100 or so.