Embedded Systems and the Internet of Things

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• Anatomy of a dev board ~30 min
• Choosing a board ~30 min
• The starter kit ~25 min
• Buying parts wisely ~25 min
• Tools of the trade ~25 min

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• Charge and current ~25 min
• Voltage and ground ~30 min
• Resistance and Ohm's law ~35 min
• Power, energy, and heat ~35 min
• Measuring with a multimeter ~40 min

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• Breadboards and prototyping ~25 min
• Reading schematics ~25 min
• Series and parallel ~35 min
• Kirchhoff's laws ~30 min
• Voltage dividers ~35 min
• LEDs and current limiting ~40 min

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• Resistors in practice ~35 min
• Capacitors ~35 min
• RC time constants ~40 min
• Inductors and kickback ~30 min
• Diodes ~45 min
• Buttons, switches and potentiometers ~40 min

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• GPIO is not a power supply ~35 min
• The transistor as a switch ~40 min
• MOSFETs ~40 min
• Relays and solid-state relays ~35 min
• Driving motors safely ~40 min

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• Voltage regulators ~40 min
• Powering a board safely ~35 min
• Logic levels and noise margins ~40 min
• 3.3 V vs 5 V and level shifting ~45 min
• Pull-ups, pull-downs and open-drain ~45 min
• Protection and wiring failures ~40 min

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• Analog vs digital signals ~30 min
• How an ADC works ~45 min
• PWM ~40 min
• From PWM to analog ~40 min
• Reading a datasheet ~45 min
• Oscilloscopes and logic analyzers ~40 min

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• The Arduino IDE ~40 min
• arduino-cli ~40 min
• PlatformIO and VS Code ~45 min
• Serial monitor and plotter ~40 min
• Libraries and dependencies ~40 min
• Ports, drivers and permissions ~40 min

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• Compile, link, and firmware images ~45 min
• Cross-compilation and architectures ~35 min
• Bootloaders and uploading ~45 min
• USB serial, native USB and debug ports ~35 min
• Project layout and git ~40 min
• When flashing fails ~35 min

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• Reading a sketch ~35 min
• Variables, types and constants ~35 min
• Operators and expressions ~40 min
• Making decisions and repeating ~45 min
• Functions ~40 min
• Arrays, scope and lifetime ~45 min

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• Blink, and the main() you never wrote ~30 min
• Types on a microcontroller ~35 min
• Digital outputs ~40 min
• Digital inputs and floating pins ~40 min
• Serial output for debugging ~40 min
• Reading analog values ~45 min
• PWM output ~45 min

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• Why delay hurts ~35 min
• Millis and elapsed time ~45 min
• Debouncing in software ~45 min
• Finite state machines ~50 min
• Many things at once ~50 min

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• Functions and modules ~45 min
• Strings and memory on small chips ~45 min
• Defensive firmware ~45 min
• Hardware abstraction ~45 min
• A reusable sensor library ~45 min
• Testing firmware logic on your computer ~50 min

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• Why C and C++ ~35 min
• Pointers and addresses ~40 min
• Structs, enums and fixed-width types ~40 min
• Bit manipulation ~40 min
• Volatile and memory-mapped registers ~45 min

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• Classes and RAII for peripherals ~40 min
• Const, constexpr and compile-time configuration ~35 min
• Templates for zero-cost drivers ~45 min
• Dynamic allocation and fragmentation ~40 min
• The standard library on embedded ~35 min
• Size and speed ~45 min

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• Reading a sensor datasheet ~35 min
• Temperature and humidity ~60 min
• Light, pressure and altitude ~45 min
• Distance and proximity ~50 min
• Motion and IMUs ~45 min
• Hall-effect sensors and encoders ~50 min
• Gas and air quality ~40 min

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• Buttons, keypads and rotary encoders ~50 min
• Displays ~55 min
• Buzzers and sound ~45 min
• Servos ~45 min
• DC motors and drivers ~55 min
• Stepper motors ~55 min
• Addressable LEDs ~55 min
• Capacitive touch ~45 min

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• Accuracy, precision and resolution ~35 min
• Calibration ~45 min
• Noise and filtering ~50 min
• Thresholds and hysteresis ~40 min
• Comparators ~45 min
• Combining sensors ~45 min

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• UART ~50 min
• I²C ~55 min
• SPI ~50 min
• One-wire and other single-wire protocols ~50 min
• Reading timing diagrams ~50 min
• Shift registers for more pins ~50 min
• USB device mode ~45 min
• CAN bus fundamentals ~45 min
• Designing a device protocol ~60 min

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• What happens at power on ~45 min
• The memory map ~40 min
• Polling vs interrupts ~45 min
• Writing safe isrs ~55 min
• Hardware timers and counters ~50 min
• Dma where supported ~35 min

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• Real time is about deadlines ~40 min
• Cooperative vs preemptive ~40 min
• Freertos tasks and priorities ~55 min
• Queues semaphores and mutexes ~55 min
• Esp32 cores and tasks ~40 min
• Races deadlocks and priority inversion ~55 min
• Measuring latency ~45 min

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• Stack, heap and static ~45 min
• Ring buffers ~45 min
• Persistent storage ~50 min
• Watchdogs and fault recovery ~50 min
• Brownouts and graceful degradation ~50 min
• Low-level debugging ~50 min

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• Power budgets ~45 min
• Batteries and charging safety ~45 min
• Regulator efficiency and quiescent current ~40 min
• Sleep modes and wake sources ~50 min
• Duty cycling ~45 min
• Measuring current ~45 min
• Solar and energy harvesting ~40 min
• Enclosures and the environment ~40 min

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• Engineering a project ~45 min
• Capstone environmental monitor ~60 min
• Capstone room controller ~60 min
• Capstone sensor data logger ~60 min
• Capstone battery powered remote sensor ~60 min