In Class: Mini-Project Milestone 3 (plus-or-minus!); The staff will show you the text, Practical Electronics for Inventors.

Assignment: Continue working on your proposal in the Google Drive and then submit your final proposal by the deadline at GradeScope. Continue gathering data from your mini-project and inserting it into a Weekly Journal in your own folder on the Google Drive.

Final Proposal...

After receiving mentor feedback on the second-draft proposal, students update these aspects of their proposal and do their best to clean up the section for background (broader research into the topic which also expands the number of references), a circuit schematic (that follows the progression of their flowchart), an estimated timeline with three or more distinct milestones (where smaller modules of their design are both constructed and validated), and a parts list (items needed for the semester). Additional parts can be ordered later as needed, but eventually the supply lag may prevent delivery in time for an item to be productively included in the project. In your parts list, include both the cost and the distributor of the part (use a direct link to the parts page whenever possible); Digikey or Mouser are most the commonly-used distributors for this course, although others may be needed. Again, feedback will be provided by the mentor regarding your proposal. Additional changes no longer need to be made to your proposal, but now should be documented in your weekly journal.

A final proposal example is available as the template on GradeScope as well as here.

Tutorial(s): None this week.