This is the home page for the EE 459Lx (Embedded Systems Design Laboratory) class. From here you can view announcments and get copies of handouts, schedules and other documents.

Announcements

On Thursday of week 1, all students will be asked to introduce themselves and tell us a bit about yourself. A biography information form will be handed out in class on Tuesday and everyone should fill it out before the Thursday class session, or you can download it from here and fill it out.

By the start of week 2 we need to have the project teams created with up to three students on each team. Students can email their request for who they want to be on a team with. For students who don't make a request, the professor will assign students to teams.

In order to access the EE459 lab (OHE 240) you will need a USCard with the proximity chip in it. Look at the lower edge of the backside of your card. If it has some numbers printed in gold or black then the cards is compatible with proximity readers.

If you don't have these numbers, go to the USCard office and tell them you now need access to a room with a proximity lock. They will issue you a new card for free.

Documents

• Course syllabus
• Semester schedule
• Project description

• Office meetings schedule
• List of available parts for project construction
• Status of parts orders

• Reference library - A variety of EE 459 documents including datasheets for most of the parts available from our stocks for project construction.
• Past projects - Information on projects done in previous semesters in EE459.

Handouts and Assignments

The documents below are handouts that will be discussed in class or during the office meetings

• ATmega328P - Notes on using the Atmel ATmega328P microcontroller
• AVR-gcc - Notes on using the development software to write programs for the ATmega328P
• Sensor_Modules - Slides of presentation on the use of various sensor modules on breakout boards
• Serial Interfaces - Slides of presentation on using RS-232, I2C and SPI interfaces
• EE 459 Lab Notes - Lots of information on constructing projects

These are the lab assignments that were handed out

Teams and Meeting Schedule

Below are the team assignments in no particular order.

Team	Members	Meeting Time
21	Walid Al-Muhtaseb, Haily Kuang, Juan Lorenzo Ordenes	11:00 Tues
22	Kayal Bhatia, Asher Holtham, Phoebe Turner
23	Alex Chen, Ernest Guo, Jaime Martin	10:00 Thurs
24	Jerry Chen, Cynthia Huang, William Liu
25	Alexander Forgosh, Shirin Jain, Isaac Stadelman
26	Le Duong, Andrew Sykes	10:30 Thurs
27	Isabel Fernandez, Leslie Garcia-Sanchez, Jimena Urena	12:00 Mon
28	Jason Garland, Robin Ryu
29	Valeria Gamez Hernandez, Andi Guerrero, Anoushka Narayan
30	Mary Karapetyan, Karen Mkrtchyan, Jacob Rojit	11:30 Tues
31	Junsoo Kim, Deccan Maniam, Phong Nguyen
32	David Delgado, Conrad Nelson, Sahil Pandit
33	Maia Piechocki, Isabella Samardzic, Erin Yuen

All teams should turn in a copy of their weekly progress report at the meetings. If you can't find any of the forms that were given to you, here's a generic one to fill out: WeeklyProgressReport.pdf

Other stuff

If you are interested in purchasing electronic components for building projects, here are some links to places we buy parts from.

Digi-Key - This is our primary supplier of electronic components. They have a large inventory, the prices are reasonable, and we usually get the order pretty quickly. However the size of their inventory sometimes makes it hard to find things.

Jameco Electronics - This is another supplier we use for supplies. Their inventory is smaller than Digi-Key and it's sometimes a bit easier to find things. They used to have a nice printed catalog but not any more.

Adafruit, SparkFun - These companies sell a lot of interesting items for the hobbyist/experimenter. Both companies sell a lot of "breakout boards" where they have mounted small IC's that are difficult to work with on PCBs what make connections to the IC easier.

Parallax, DFRobot - These are similar to Adafruit and SparkFun in that most of the stuff is for the hobbyist.

Phoenix Enterprises - They seem to have a good selection of connectors and parts for wire-wrapping.

Newark and Mouser Electronics - These two are major suppliers to the electronics industry with very large inventories. Not sure if they have minimum order amounts that may make it hard for the hobbyist but they are worth a look.

Apex Surplus, This is a large electronics surplus store in an industrial area of the San Fernando Valley (8909 San Fernando Road, Sun Valley). If they have something you need, you can probably get it at a good price, but it's sometimes hard to find things. It's definitely worth at least one trip there just to see the place, and its storage area outside in the back.

Office Hours

Allan Weber

M: 1-2pm, W/F: 10:30-11:30am

EEB 410, 213-740-4147

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