Pre-Lecture Activities

Week 2

Watch before class this week

• Analog vs. Digital

• Watch Analog Input with Potentiometers

Bring to class all this week

• Photon 2, breadboard, resistors, push buttons, LEDs, RGB LEDS, wires potentiometer
• You can see what parts look like visually by checking out the kit page

Build before class Mon / Tues

• none

Build before class Wed / Thurs

• none

Optional C++ Reference

• Quick note: in some of the C++ videos below, they reference cout and cin. Those are C++ functions that we don’t use in programming microcontrollers so you don’t need to worry about them. For clarity, all you need to know is that
  • cout is a C++ function to print to the console window like Serial.println for the Photon 2 or print in Python
  • cin is a C++ function to get user input from the keyboard like input in Python. The Photon 2 doesn’t have an equivalent way to get user input from the keyboard.
• Watch Arrays in C++

• Watch For Loops in C++

• Watch Using Arrays and Loops Together in C++

• Read Analog vs. Digital
• Watch Pulse Width Modulation (we will cover this in class)