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Welcome to the Gizmo documentation for 2018.

This new format is designed to be more generalised to support the electromechanical work which happens in many projects across the Design Engineering undergraduate degree.

Where possible, all contributions and acknowledgements will be put on pages as external links to the source. For more general acknowledgements, they will be put here rather than trying to find all the specific places in the documentation.

Syllabus

Class	Date	Contents
DE2 Gizmo Class 4	Wednesday 17th October 2018	Introduction to Arduino Basics Sensors Actuators
DE2 Gizmo Class 6	Wednesday 24th October 2018	Combined Sense & Actuation
DE2 Gizmo Class 8	Wednesday 24th October 2018	Raspberry Pi Chapter 1 Chapter 3 Chapter 5.2 Chapter 6 Chapter 7.1 Chapter 8
DE2 Gizmo Class 10	Wednesday 14th November 2018	Raspberry Pi Chapter 8

Contents

• Introduction
  • Preparing your Computer
    • macOS
    • Windows
    • Linux
    • Text editor
  • Intro to Git & GitHub
    • What is a VCS?
    • Understanding Git
    • Using a graphical interface for Git
    • GitHub
  • Warmup for Python
    • About Python Language
    • Basic Practise
• Arduino
  • 1. Introduction to Arduino
    • 1.1. What is Arduino?
    • 1.2. What is Arduino: Hardware
    • 1.3. What is Arduino: Software
  • 2. Basics
    • 2.1. Example: Blink
    • 2.2. Example: Led PWM
    • 2.3. Example: Button
    • 2.4. Challenge
  • 3. Sensors
    • 3.1. Reading the sensor information
    • 3.2. Potentiometer
    • 3.3. Light Sensor
    • 3.4. Challenge
  • 4. Actuators
    • 4.1. Piezo Buzzer
    • 4.2. Servo Motor
    • 4.3. Challenge
  • 5. Combined Sense & Actuation
    • 5.1. Motor
    • 5.2. Challenge 1
    • 5.3. Challenge 2
    • 5.4. Capacitive Touch Sensor
    • 5.5. Challenge 3
  • Why Arduino?
  • Alternative Microcontrollers
• Raspberry Pi
  • 1. Assembling Pi workstation
    • 1.1. Getting going
  • 2. Setting up your SD Card
    • 2.1. Downloading your Disk Image
    • 2.2. Flashing your Disk Image
  • 3. Configuring the Pi
    • 3.1. raspi-config
    • 3.2. Adding users
  • 4. Headless Setup
  • 5. Accessing Networks
    • 5.1. WiFi via GUI
    • 5.2. WPA Supplicant
    • 5.3. Pi as a hotspot
  • 6. Software
    • 6.1. Removing packages
    • 6.2. Operating System
    • 6.3. Installing packages
  • 7. Connecting Remotely
    • 7.1. SSH via remot3.it
    • 7.2. SSH using Screen
    • 7.3. Alternative ways to connect via SSH
    • 7.4. VNC GUI control
    • 7.5. Transferring files
  • 8. Backing up your SD card
    • 8.1. Backup using Windows
    • 8.2. Backup using macOS
    • 8.3. Restoring and image to the SD Card
  • 9. GPIO
    • 9.1. Materials needed
    • 9.2. GPIO Pinout
    • 9.3. Blink
    • 9.4. LED PWM
    • 9.5. Button
    • 9.6. Combining Everything
  • 10. Using Peripherals
    • 10.1. Motor HAT
    • 10.2. Available I/O e.g. cameras/screens/touch screens/drivers
  • Why Raspberry Pi?
  • Alternatives to the Raspberry Pi
• Communication
  • Protocol: Serial
    • Combining the Arduino for the Raspberry Pi
    • Talking Over Serial
    • Other methods
• Sensors & Actuators
• Supplementary Material
  • Crontab - scheduling commands
  • Material to be added
  • Useful links
    • Text Editors
    • File Transfer Software
    • SSH Applications
    • Git
    • Raspberry Pi
    • 3D Objects Library
    • Specific for Imperial College Students

Missing Material

Todo

Guidance for managing installs and software on personal computers needs to be written here.

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/de-gizmo/checkouts/latest/docs/source/introduction/computers.rst, line 5.)

Todo

Review whether Python 2.7 is the correct option nowadays - or whether Python 3.x is more appropriate.

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/de-gizmo/checkouts/latest/docs/source/introduction/python.rst, line 14.)

Todo

More information will be added here soon.

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/de-gizmo/checkouts/latest/docs/source/raspberrypi/peripherals.rst, line 238.)

Todo

Using VNC for remote GUI control will be added later.

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/de-gizmo/checkouts/latest/docs/source/raspberrypi/remote-connection.rst, line 284.)

Todo

Sensors & Actuators index page

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/de-gizmo/checkouts/latest/docs/source/sense-actuate/index.rst, line 4.)

Todo

More supplementary material will be added here later.

(The original entry is located in /home/docs/checkouts/readthedocs.org/user_builds/de-gizmo/checkouts/latest/docs/source/supplementary/index.rst, line 9.)