ECE 2883 Homework and other assignments

1. Go to the basic physics background. Note that each one of the square boxes is a hyperlink to a video. Navigate down the chart and visit the hyperlinks that you think you need to visit. Nothing to turn in, but do it before Monday, when most of you will be doing the lab exercises (to be posted by then).
2. Read pages IT-1 to IT-3, SW-1 to SW-6 (note the STOP sign), BA-1 to BA-4, and GD-1 to GD-9 in the annotated Wills & Wills eBook. That's about 22 pages total, and you should cover it before seminar on Thursday, 8/27, so we can discuss it (especially whatever does not make sense to you.)
3. Optionally, read Harris & Harris Ch 1 through section 1.5.

1. Read pages NS-1 through NS-12 of the annotated Wills & Wills eBook, corresponding to PDF pages 75-86. Optionally, the same Harris & Harris assignment mentioned in Homework 1 has some overlap with this material.
2. Take a look at a page on how RC Servos work. Do not get hung up on details, like the circuit diagram. More material is at the Wikipedia article on RC Servos.
3. As you know, some examples of project direction were given here on the course web site. This is a good time to start expanding those possibilities. Find an existing work that blends some aspects of art and technology. It does NOT have to be something that you would do yourself or that it be feasible to do with the components that we have discussed -- it is sufficient that it provides a broad direction that someone may want to investigate. PROVIDE A LINK (preferably an electronic resource like a web page or video) by making a post on Piazza, selecting both the "project" and "hw2" folder tags, to make it easy to find.

The only thing to "turn in" is the Piazza post in #3 (due by Sept. 3 at noon), but this material could appear on the midterm exam, and if you are fuzzy on binary numbers, it might help you as early as this week's lab. You also should be prepared to discuss the item you found for #3 in our seminar.