Tips in Week 5

C troubleshooting

  • Instead of modifying an old program (that works!!!), make a new copy of an old one. Now you are saving the one that works and can always go back to that one, and copy pieces from it.
  • Keep it simple. Make one thing work at a time. Despite the pre-lab encouragement to come up with a complete program, start out in lab by doing something simpler. E.g. resources/SketchesMenus/turn2sec.

Oscilloscope learnings (and diode measurements...)


  • "Zero" of signal
  • Probe settings on probe, and on oscilloscope menus for each channel. Set both to "1X".
  • How to change the options

Diode circuits


Consider After getting everything working on the scope (finally):