Pre-class Assignment

Complete participation activities for 11.1 and 11.2.

Announcements

• Check in Survey Results
• Assessment 1 will be today after a short pre-lab for Lab 3
• Lab 2 is due tomorrow
  • Please sign up for a lab 2 check off tomorrow
  • Talk to me ASAP if you are having issues finishing the lab
    • I will do late checkoffs on a case by case basis since it’s sophomore planning and scheduling may be difficult, but please no more than 1 week late like with Lab 1
• Lab 3 is out and will be due Wednesday March 18th
  • You will continue using the same breadboards. You do not need to disassemble your board unless you need space. Please do not throw out any supplies (other than “consumables” like wire/resistors/capacitors/electrodes).
  • If you want to work in a different group from your current group, let me know ASAP
  • You hopefully will not need to work on the lab over break, but I am allowing you to turn it in after break just in case
  • Do not forget to complete Challenge Activity 10.4.1 before the end of Lab 3
• Office hours signup

Learning Objectives and Outcomes

In this lecture, you will...

• listen to a lecture on lab 3 and work on in class exercises on implementing state machines
• complete Assessment 1

By the end of this lecture, you should be able to...

• complete a good chunk of lab 3 (exercise 1, exercise 3-6), and start on exercise 2

Lecture Content

Introduction to Lab 3

See Lab 3: Stoplight State Machine

Key points:

• You will be building a state machine to implement a stoplight
• This will involve a detailed state machine design and implementation, along with an implementation of a basic sensing scheme using ultrasonic sensors