Instructions for how to build your circuit board
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Lab Kits: Each student taking ECE 376 is required to build their own evaluation board.
Purchasing Lab Kits: Lab kits cost $65 in cash or checks made out to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). (SWE buys parts in bulk, which saves you a lot of money.) Bring a check for $65 made out to Society of Women Engineers (or cash) to room 201A in the ECE building to buy a kit.
- This gives you experience soldering a circuit board – a skill you’ll use in senior design (and elsewhere)
- The resulting boards allow you to test our your hardware and software
- They make the course a lot more fun: students tend to get a kick out of seeing motors move, lights respond, measuring how fast a motor is spinning, in practice rather than just simulation
- They make the course a lot more effective: things like interrupts are hard to understand unless you actually use them
- If you’ve never soldered before, don’t worry: that’s why the instructor and TA’s are here. If your board dies or refuses to work, just bring it to me (Glower). I can usually get the boards to work after a few minutes of debugging. If all else fails, I have some spare boards.
Purchasing Lab Kits: Lab kits cost $65 in cash or checks made out to the Society of Women Engineers (SWE). (SWE buys parts in bulk, which saves you a lot of money.) Bring a check for $65 made out to Society of Women Engineers (or cash) to room 201A in the ECE building to buy a kit.
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PCB
76mm x 151mm PCB from JLPCB
Lab Kit Parts
prices are in quantities of 100
$4.00
PIC18F4620
8-bit microcontroller with 65k flash memoryDigikey part number: PIC18F4620-I/P-ND
$8.54
16x2 LCD Character Display
1602 LCD Display Module 16x02 LCD Screen ModuleAmazon & ebay
$4.50
FTDI-RS232
FT232RL 3.3V 5.5V FTDI USB to TTL Serial Adapter Module (Amazon and ebay)
$2.98
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3 x 4 Matrix Array Membrane Switch 69.2*76.9mm Keypad Keyboard 3x4 (Amazon)
$1.00
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Ultrasonic Range Module
HC-SR04 Ultrasonic Sensor, Distance Sensor with Ultrasonic Transmitter and Receiver Module (Amazon)
$2.99
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Breadboard Wires
700Pcs Jumper Wire Kit Bread Board Wires Development Board Special Wire 5 Sets of 140 Pieces per Set 14 Different Lengths 9 Colors (Amazon)
$2.00
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CdS Photoresistor
Photo-resistor. Digikey PN
PDV-P8103-ND
$0.51
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NeoPixel (ES2812 RGB LED)
8 Bits WS2812 RGB LED Stick 8 X WS2812B 5050 Full Color RGB LED Module Built-in Drivers (Amazon)
$2.99
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8 Ohm Speaker
2" 8Ohm 3W Full Range Audio Speaker Stereo Woofer Loudspeaker (Amazon)
$3.50
Dual H-Bridge
L298N Motor Drive Controller Board Module Stepper Motor DC Dual H Bridge (Amazon)
$1.92
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Thermistor
NTC ThermistorDigikey PN: BC2523-ND
$0.41
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RGB LED
RGB Piranha LED - Common Anode (Amazon)
$0.69
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Quality Learning Experience
1W 5V LED Chip Bulb, Light Beads 200lm Brightness High Bead Light Source Chip with Aluminum Plate (Amazon)
$0.52
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Stepper Motor
Nema 17 Stepper Motor Bipolar 1.5A 42Ncm 42x42x38mm 1.8deg 4 Wires with 1m Cable and Connector (Amazon)
$6.29
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Power NPN Transistors
2SC6144SG NPN transistors (10A, 50V, gain > 300)Digikey PN2SC6144SGOS-ND
$0.95
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Resisotors & Capacitors
Resistors x10 (100, 330, 1k, 3.3k, 10k, 33k, 100k)Capacitors x4 (0.01uF, 0.1uF, 1uF, 10uF, 100uF)
$5.00
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Misc Components
Connectors (SIL6 (x4), 8x2 header (x4) 5mm momentary switch (x9), 10k trim pot (x1), 5k pot (x1)
USB Cable, M-F Wires, 40x1 header, 40x2 socket
$15.00