Electronics basics

Appendix B of the book "Embedded Computing and Mechatronics with the PIC32 Microcontroller" contains a brief summary of material relevant to ME 333 Introduction to Mechatronics. You can visit the wiki page for the book for more details.

Using Lab Equipment

• Using Solderless Breadboard
• Conductors: stranded, solid, ribbon cable, coax, twisted pairs, wire gauge (thickness)

Basic Electronics

• Basic Linear Circuits Review
• Resistors (Ohm's Law), Capacitors, and Inductors
• Voltage and Current Dividers
• Kirchhoff's Current and Voltage Laws
• RC and RL Exponential Responses
• Passive Filters
• Potentiometers
• Using LEDs & IREDs

Active Electronics

• Semiconductors
• Integrated Circuits
• Operational Amplifiers (Op-Amps)
• Comparators
• Op-Amp Applications
• Instrumentation amps, and NU circuit board for them
• Diodes and Transistors
• Photodiodes and Phototransistors
• Digital Circuits
• Logic Gates
• Schmitt Triggers
• Schmitt Trigger

More electronics

• Flip-Flops and Latches
• 555 Timer
• Switch Debouncing
• Pulse width modulation
• Shielding, Grounding, Noise Suppression, etc.
• Circuit diagram for wave generator
• Using Opto-Isolators to Prevent Interference
• Second Order Active Filters
• Making a Molex Connector
• Filtering with the LMF100
• Phase-Sensitive Detection