MCHE 201: Intro to Engineering Design
Please see Moodle for Spring 2020 Course Information
It is being led by Dr. Jacob King.
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The MicroPython pyboard
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The First Version of the MCHE201 Kit
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The Spring 2015 Champions
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The Fall 2015 Champions
Official Course Description: Techniques for creating, evaluating, synthesizing, implementing, and documenting solutions to open ended engineering problems, team and project management.
Prerequisites: MCHE 101, ENGR 211
Textbook: Introductory Mechanical Design Tools by W. Singhose and J. Donnell — Hardcopy, iBooks — Yes. It's only about $40, but it's a good book. With the money we'll save, let's buy a ...
Robot Kit: This custom kit from SparkFun.
Paper: This paper describes a similar class at Georgia Tech that Dr. Vaughan helped develop.
Webcam: If you're on campus, you can check out the activity in the MCHE201 design studio via our webcam.
Lectures
- Please see Moodle for Spring 2020 Lectures
Projects
- Please see Moodle for Spring 2020 Project Information
General Information
- Pre-submission Checklist
- Report Template LaTeX source, pdf
- Open Template at Overleaf.com
- Example Reports (42mb .zip file)
Video Presentation Guidelines- Student Presentations
Homework
- Please see Moodle for Spring 2020 Homework Information
The Final Contest
- Please see Moodle for Additional Spring 2020 Final Project Information
Background Information
- Spring 2019 Pictures
- Fall 2018 Pictures
- Fall 2018 Final Contest Timelapse
- Spring 2018 Pictures
- Fall 2017 Pictures
- Spring 2017 Pictures
- Fall 2016 Pictures
- Spring 2016 Pictures
- Fall 2015 Pictures
- Spring 2015 Pictures
- General MCHE201 Pictures
- Spring 2015 Contest Video
- Fall 2013 Pictures
- Fall 2013 Contest Video
- ME2110 Videos for Design Ideas
- Track Control Overview
Video
- Student Presentations
- MCHE 201 Vimeo Channel
- Technical Writing Basics
- Technical Presentation Basics
- Determining a COM Port Number in Windows
- PuTTY Settings for pyboard REPL
- CoolTerm Settings for pyboard in Windows
- CoolTerm Settings for pyboard REPL in macOS
- Track Control Overview
- MCHE 470: Robotics Vimeo Channel
- Old Contest Start Box Demo
- Master Plan Contest Video
- Fall 2018 Final Contest Timelapse
Code
- MicroPython Quick Reference
- MicroPython Tutorials for the pyboard
- MCHE201 boilerplate main.py file
- Toggling the Onboard RED LED
- Toggling all the Onboard LEDs
- Varying Onboard LED Intensity
- Onboard LED Knight Rider Effect
- Reading the Onboard Switch
- Reading the Onboard Accelerometer
- Reading pyboard Tilt
- Reading pyboard Core Information
- Writing to the Micro-SD Card
- Reading an External Pushbutton
- Reading a Magnetic Switch
- Reading a Potentiometer
- Reading a Flex Sensor
- Reading a Soft Potentiometer
- Reading a Force Sensitive Resistor (FSR)
- Reading an IR Distance Sensor
- Calculating Distance with an IR Sensor
- Filtering IR Sensor Readings
- All Analog Inputs on MCHE201 Board
- Controlling Digital Output
- Controlling a Hobby Servomotor
- Moving a Servo Based on User Input
- Controlling a Piezo Buzzer
- One Possible Track Start Button Check
- Using an Interrupt to Sense Trial Start
- Try… Except… Finally
- Multiple LEDs with One Output
- Controlling an NPN Transistor
- Controlling a DC Motor
- Smoothing DC Motor Commands
- Controlling a Stepper Motor
- Controlling Stepper Motor Speed
- Stepper Motor Speed Testing
- Controlling a Linear Actuator
- Checking Linear Actuator Length
- Linear Actuator with On/Off Control
- Input-based Linear Actuator Control
- Controlling the 5V Solenoid
- Controlling a DC motor with TB6612 Driver
- Class-based TB6612 Motor Control
- Controlling Two Motors with TB6612 Driver
- Class-based Motor Control for Two Motors
- Controlling a DC motor with DRV8871 Driver
- Timer-based Interrupts
- Reading a Wii Nunchuk
- Controlling WS2812 LEDs (Neopixels)
- Reading an i2c Ultrasonic Distance Sensor
