Documentation
Welcomem to the documentation center for the class! This will be your central resource for labs, technical readings, and will also contain great information to share with your partners! Please note that since this website is online, we have limited control on how it displays on various devices. If you ever need a PDF version, or anything enlarged, please email Adi!
A secondary note, questions are welcome and encouraged! Please ask your questions to the staff and often we will post clarifications to this site to help other students as well (though we won’t name you unless you want us to)!
Labs
You will all recieve a lab kit that you will share with a partner. Please see the labs page for information on the kit.
Lab 0
Introdution to Arduino. Please do this lab within the first week of class if you have not used an Arduino before.
Lab 1
Internet of Things, getting your arduino, and phone to talk to each other.
Lab 2
Sensors and Input Devices, includes filtering data, and data processing.
Lab 3
Actuators, Actors, and Output Devices, how to make your things do things.
Lab 4
Designing for Robustness in the Field, how to know your things will work in harsh environments.
Please check the syllabus for lab due dates, in general labs are due 1 week after the release date.
Readings
You will be responsible for completing readings before coming to class and lab! These readings are really helpful to get moving on the lab, so while we won’t be checking if you read them, they’re really critical to doing well in the class!
Reading 1
Introduction to Electronics, how to not explode everything!
Reading 2
Example in developing funcational requirements for an IoT system.
Reading 3
Introduction to sensors, measurement, and filtration.
Reading 4
Introduction to motors, actuators, and mechatronics systems.
Please also note that the resources page was designed exactly to give you more information than what is contained in the readings. Each reading will also have a references, and further reading section which is optional but encouraged in case you feel you need to explore more to understand! As always, please reach out with questions!
Tutorials
Installing Software
List and instructions of software required for the class.
What is IoT?
A basic introduction to IoT systems, what they are, and how they work.
Connect Arduino to the MIT Network
Please note in this class we will be using the MIT network instead of MIT Secure.
Additional tutorials that you might find interesting are avaliable on the Arduino IoT documentation site and other sites, which we have linked here for your convenience.