Status

Update 9/5/23: Course being offered. 15 students enrolled. Jimmy Lin assisting with teaching; also have grader and undergraduate TA. Canvas course link (permission required): Fall 2023 INST 208z

Update 09/14/22: Dave’s Contact at Vex is sending to Kits which Dennis will play with and set up in the IoT Lab. We are evaluating kit for being a primary part of the lab environment for student learning experiences.

Key next steps Dennis/David are:

• to refine learning outcomes,

• get syllabus into the approval process,

• set target class size, class student-to-equipment ratio,

• decide on course technologies (which robotics kits, which programming environments)

• brainstorm core lab experiences.

Update 12/12/22:

• Classroom Kit of Vex ordered, working on Carts

• Storage not an issue, can use my office

• Need to register final version of Syllabus (will do after break)

• iRobot ideas? Amazon? maybe SDKs and IDEs better, but …. former colleague of David’s

• Wondering about ties to 371 - see syllabus

• Computing Ed committee …. great to get more faculty Caro, Tammy, sustainable teaching what technologies are …… synergies with how courses programming teach/things get added but not taken

• after 371

  • campus computing center ties

  • info design ish build and designing tools, or game based course,

  • educational data infrastructure data course / educational data mining

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1S4STQrpM90QJcMSFL_l_9qR5Yuz6Wn5g2TFqhByvxi4/edit#heading=h.gyycxg8sydds

  • digital fabrication

Brief

Newly proposed predecessor course to 371. Goal is to offer it in Spring 2023.

See also New Electronics Module and IoT Lab in the Commons

Collaborator(s)

David Weintrop, Dennis Frezzo

Resources

Adafruit

Vex

Elegoo

RaPi

Sphero littleBits

First Draft Syllabus

Open