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

For a team to get a tool kit, bring a $30 (cash) deposit to Weber's office (EEB 410), or if he's not there see Gloria Halfacre in EEB 404. The deposit will be returned at the end of the semester when the kit is returned.

Documents

	9:30-10:50 section	2:00-3:20 section
	Course syllabus	Course syllabus
	Semester schedule	Semester schedule
	Project description	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
• EE 459 Lab Notes - Lots of information on constructing projects

These are the lab assignments that were handed out

• Lab Assignment #1 - Getting power on the board
• Lab Assignment #2 - Programming the microcontroller
• Lab Assignment #3 - I/O bit test program
• Lab Assignment #4 - Putting a serial interface on the board

Teams and Meeting Schedule

Below are the team assignments in no particular order.

9:30 Class

Team	Members	Meeting Time
11	Jessica Mow, Matthew Pisini, Zechen Zhou	10:00 Tues
12	Megan Andersen, Grant Garcia, Daniel Xu	10:30 Thurs
13	Alexander Baronikian, Irene Lopez, Zhiyuan Ning, Alex Ohanian	9:30 Thurs
14	Madelyn Douglas, Kevin Hernandez, Yuanshan Liu	10:30 Tues
15	Cameron Donovan, Qingyuan Li, Martin Romo	5:00 Mon
16	Tristan Elma, Noah Feldman, William Gonzalez, Michael Takla	9:00 Tues
17	Andrew Charters, Meng Li, Helen Zhen	9:30 Tues
18	Eugene Park, Ana Rescala, Michael Tawata	10:00 Thurs

2:00 Class

Team	Brand	Members	Meeting Time
1	REI	Charles Bennett, Taha Sutarwala, Andrew Zhou	10:30 Wed
2	Dyson	Jasper Lee, Guiyao Sun, Bradley Zieminski	2:30 Tues
3	Miracle Grow	Armin Bazarjani, Rebecca Chavez, Jeffrey Loh	3:00 Tues
4	Kryptonite	Cameron Akhaven, Michael Jeong, Anthony Johnston	1:00 Fri
5	Google	Natan Benchimol, David Karapetyan, Andrew-Richard Opem	2:00 Tues
6	Samsung	Marcos Martinez, Alexander Razaghi, Arjun Viswanathan	12:30 Mon

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.

Jameco Electronics - We used to buy most of our stuff from Jameco before they "improved" their web site. It's now more difficult to find stuff on the web site so you may be better off requesting a printed catalog or looking through the PDF version of the printed catalog. It's usually easier to find parts in that catalog than online. It will also get you on their mailing list for future catalogs.

Digi-Key - This is our other primary supplier. They have a large inventory, the prices are reasonable, and we usually get the order pretty quickly. They send out a printed catalog of over 1000 pages. However the size of the catalog sometimes make it hard to find things.

SparkFun Electronics - This company sells a lot of interesting items for the hobbiest/experimenter. Their inventory changes a lot so you might not be able to buy the same things six months from now.

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

Modern Device - They seem to have a interesting variety of components including many sensors and related components.

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.

All Electronics - This is basically a surplus store with both new and used components. Their prices on some stuff is very good, provided you can find what you need. You can also visit their store at 14928 Oxnard St., Van Nuys.

B.G. Micro - They sell a wide variety of interesting stuff. Download their PDF catalog.

Apex Electronics, 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: 10-12, W: 11-12, Th: 3:30-4:30

EEB 410, 213-740-4147

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