Expected results
At the end of the training, the participants are expected to acquire the following skills:
- ability to identify basic electric and electronic components
- ability to draw, read and understand a basic circuit
- ability to operate soldering on a circuit
- Ability to use, wire and program an ARDUINO board
- Knowledge of various phases towards making a professional IoT device
- Knowledge and skills to design and simulate a virtual electronic circuit using available tools/software
- hands-on knowledge and skills to design a PCB
- Hands on knowledge and skills to print a PCB
- Hands on knowledge and skills on designing 3D objects
- Hands on knowledge and skills on 3D PRINTING
Methodology
Day1: 3D design with Solid Works (by ODC)
Day2: Introduction to 3D printers and 3D printing of samples boxes for a small weather sensor (by ODC)
Day3: Introducing IoT (by WASCAL)
- Introduction to IoT
- Hands-on Reminder of electrical and electronic principles, components (resistor, LED, Capacitor, diode, etc.)
- Reminder of electric circuit schemas
- introduction to basic soldering
- hand-on introduction to ARDUINO
- Drawing / generation electric circuit
- hands-on introduction to programing with Arduino IDE
Day 4: development of a small weather sensor [1/2] (by WASCAL)
- Design phase:
- functionalities needed
- basic hand drawing of the device needed
- components needed
- test of components using ARDUINO
- SIMULATION phase: virtual circuit
- wiring of components to ARDUINO
- Programmatically handling the sensors
- virtual circuit generation
Day 5: development of a small weather sensor [2/2] (by WASCAL)
- implementation phase:
- PCB design from the simulation circuit
- export to CNC printing format
- introduction to CNC machine
- PCB printing
- Physical wiring of the components to the PCB
- Test and packaging phase
- mounting the PCB into the 3D printed box
- Functionality and usability physical tests
