📄️ Electronics Project overview
The 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:
📄️ Paper Prototypes and Low-cost Prototyping
A paper prototype is exactly what it sounds like
📄️ Works-Like Prototype
A works-like prototype is different than the paper prototype in that it should "actually work", but it does not need to have any aesthetic resemblance to the final product. A works-like prototype could be a mess of wires on a breadboard. It could have certain parts that are stand-in for their final versions. The more finished a works-like prototype is, the more it will include the final components, but it is both "allowed" and expected that a works-like prototype will not be the exact same as the final prototype.
📄️ 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.