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Old Announcements
03/29 - Lab 4 Checkoff, Code submission
- Lab 4 is due on Tuesday 4/01. Please turn in your code and lab notebook during lecture.
- Please also submit your Lab 4 code online before lecture on Tuesday 4/01.
- Lab 4 Checkoffs will be held on
Tuesday 4/01 and Friday 4/02. Please sign up for a slot online
02/25 - Lab 2 Checkoff, Code submission
- Lab 2 is due on Thursday 2/28. Please turn in your code and lab notebook during lecture.
- Please also submit your Lab 2 code online before lecture on Thursday 2/28.
- Lab 2 Checkoffs will be held on
Thursday 2/28 and Friday 2/29. Please sign up for a slot online
2/18 - Fluorescent Lamps
- The fluoresent lamps for Lab 2 have been put out at each lab bench.
There is a demo setup at bench 51 that you can use to compare and verify
the connections to the lamp.
2/16 - PIC Soldering Clinic
- The PIC soldering clinic is where you will build the PIC burner
that you need for the remainder of the labs. Sessions will be held on
Monday 2/18, Tuesday 2/19, Wednesday 2/20, and Thursday 2/21.
Please sign up for a slot online.
02/11 - Lab 1 Checkoff
- Lab 1 is due on Thursday 2/14. Please turn in your code and lab notebook during lecture.
- Lab 1 Checkoffs will be held on
Thursday 2/14 and Friday 2/15.
- Please use our online
system to sign up for a checkoff slot.
02/06 - Lab Familiarizations
- Lab familiarizations are Tuesday 2/05 and Wednesday 2/06.
- You'll need to attend the familiarization to receive your R31JP.
- If you missed the familiarizations, please come to scheduled office hours
on Thursday 2/07 or Friday 2/08.
01/01 - Introduction
- This class is a chance to remember why you came to MIT: to learn and
to build. In the humble and unbiased opinion of the lecturer and
TA's, 6.115 is one of the most exciting classes you can take at MIT to
further your professional growth as an engineer. Systems that employ
embedded micro-control are all around you: CD and MP3 players, kitchen
appliances like microwave ovens, cellular phones, calculators,
television sets, and high performance aircraft, to name a few. In
ways you may not realize, even very familiar consumer products that
existed in some form before the microprocessor benefit in their
contemporary incarnations from microcontrollers. A modern, high-end
luxury automobile will typically contain more than a dozen
microcontrollers to provide everything from engine and emissions
control to music programming. This class is your passport into the
world of people who love to build elegant, efficient systems that
work.
- Course topics include optical tomography, multi-axis robot arm
control, video and audio signal processing, power electronics
including laptop power supplies and fluorescent lamp ballasts, and
numeric computation (calculators and floating point calculations).
This class is not particularly about learning how a specific
microcontroller is programmed, or about designing circuits, or about
wiring chips together. We do a little of all of these things, but
our real goal is to introduce you to a palette of tools and
techniques that let you build what you can imagine. These techniques
are much more general than the details of a single processor or
programming language. Chips come and go, but successful approaches
for engineering design have a life that spans many iterations of a
particular technology.
- Students in the class build a PIC microcontroller development
system that you can keep if you complete the class.
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