Syllabus for the NYU-ITP graduate course Homemade Hardware
- Brandon Roots, Mondays, 9:30am - 12:00pm
- Code of Conduct
- All class dates
- Office Hours (use NYU google calendar appts, link via class mailing list)
Week 1 - Workshop: SMD Lipo Charger, Jan 23
Week 2 - Workshop: Programming ATtiny85, Jan 30
Week 3 - Eagle Schematics and Board Design, Feb 6
Week 4 - Bantam PCB Milling, Feb 13
Week 5 - Assemble the Marquee Sign, Feb 27
Week 6 - Eagle SCH, BRD, and LBR, March 6
Week 7 - Presentation: Idea for Final (3 minutes), March 20
Week 8 - Presentation: Prototype Builds (3 minutes), March 27
Week 9 - Lecture: Bantam 2, April 3
Week 10 - Presentations: Alpha Builds (8 minutes), April 10
Week 11 - Lecture: Real World PCBs, Debugging, and Scopes, April 17
Week 12 - Presentations: Beta Builds (10 minutes), April 24
Week 13 - Lecture: Teardown, Power, and Displays, May 1
- Please read ITP's policy on pass/fail
- You are required to attend all class meetings and submit all weekly assignments and a final project.
- Grading (pass/fail) will be based on a combination of factors:
- Assignments: 40%
- Marquee Project: 20%
- Final Project: 40%
- Component Search Engines
- ComponentSearchEngine.com provides free access to schematic symbols, PCB footprints and 3D models
- Octopart.com is a great search engine for vendors and current inventory of electronic parts
- Vendors
- Tinkersphere is in the East Village, and is stocked perfectly for any p-comp student.
- Bantam Tools sells everything you need to mill PCBs
- Adafruit creates and documents TONS of hardware projects that we can learn and borrow from. Plus, their in NYC so shipping can be quick.
- Sparkfun is similar to Adafruit, except they're in Colorado.
- Digikey is where we get the vast majority of our components. Huge catalog that can be confusing at first.
- Mouser is another component supplier like Digikey.
- Ebay is a great place to find parts and materials you can't find anywhere else. However, depending on where it's coming from, shipping might take a few weeks, so plan accordingly.
- Alibaba is like ebay, except it's a lot of stuff from China and it's super cheap! But, once again, things can take a long time to arrive, so plan accordingly.
- PCB Fabrication
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