An Introduction To Sensors

Overview

This Introduction To Sensors course will be split up into 10 lessons with the lecture video for each lesson hosted on youtube. The lectures will be to 8-12 minutes in length so that you have enough time to see the information and can go over it twice to perform any of the experiments while following along with the video. Each lecture will contain 4 main sections: an introduction, a plain english theoretical explanation, an experiment and a real world example. In addition, each lesson video will be hosted at PyroEDU with downloadable offline information and material like homework, schematics, code and parts information.

Course Content

1. Introduction (4/30/2015)
2. Tilt Sensor (5/7/2015)
3. Temperature Sensor (5/14/2015)
4. Infrared Proximity Sensor (5/21/2015)
5. Infrared Encoder (5/28/2015)
6. Sound Sensor (6/4/2015)
7. Ultrasonic Proximity Sensor (6/11/2015)
8. Light Sensor (6/18/2015)
9. Motion Sensor (6/25/2015)
10. Magnetic Sensor (7/2/2015)

Expectations

This course is meant to take you, the learner, from a blank slate to a more informed individual by teaching about electronic sensors in a hands-on way, as the lecture videos will emphasize and guide you with experimentation. You should expect to learn the basic theory behind how several types of sensors operate and how to build a circuit to use a sensor to interpret the real world.