Last updated at 10:47 AM on 12 Nov 2012
Class meeting on 1, 2 October 2012
Homework: Homework 2
Quiz 1 covers Electricity, Ohm's Law, and the basic structure of an atom
Sparkfun has a multimeter tutorial that fills in a lot of additional material not covered in the class notes.
Limor Fried (a.k.a. Lady Ada) has created some very nice and very helpful tutorials on getting started with Arduino. If you are having trouble getting your Arduino running, have a look at Tutorial 0: Getting Ready and Tutorial 1: Let There Be Blink. Those tutorials are helpful even if you are not having trouble getting started.
Resistor values are indicated by a series of stripes on the resistor. There are many diagrams avaiable to you. The following diagram shows how to interpret the meaning of the color stripes.