📄️ Electronics Project overview
The final assessment of your individual abilities in this course will be the personal electronics project. The project must be done individually because it is an individual assessment, but you are certainly encouraged to discuss the work with your classmates. This is your chance to demonstrate your engagement and mastery over the course subject matter. It is an open-ended creative project, but it must include at minimum:
📄️ Pitches and Sketches
Your project pitch will be a little written blurb with one or more sketches. The sketches should be "good enough" to convey your idea fully, but not a finished design. This might feel a little unusual: yes, we're asking you to leave things a bit unfinished. However, it should not be so unfinished as to be useless. There's a balance. Put a "medium" amount of effort in.
📄️ Paper Prototype and BOM
Just like in Lab 02, you should make a paper prototype of your project. Unlike your sketch, you should be committed to this idea. In fact, the purpose of the paper prototype is that it should help you work out enough details about your project to be able to make a bill of materials and order parts.
📄️ Works-Like Prototype
In this lab, you should be showing off a working circuit and mechanical system. The project does not need to be "done" but it needs to be significantly progressed. All your electronic parts should be in, and they should all "work" at this point.
📄️ Final Demo and Documentation
The final demo will happen on the last day of class in the lecture hall. You will be required to bring your fully working and integrated works-like-looks-like prototype to class and show it off. It's a speedy day for Paul (have to get through ~70 projects), so you should practice a 30-second presentation to ensure that we can have a very quick demo.