8-Weeks in Advanced Electrical Engineering
Over the next 8 weeks you'll use the following resources, in-class lectures, your own research to create your own Audio-Amplifier designs, and then implement them.
Students will be learn the fundamentals of not only electronics, but electrical engineering. They will learn the classical types of Audio Amplifiers. Then, they'll create their own twists on the classics, making solid state amplifiers from scratch of their own design.
These amplifiers will be used during a combined exhibition between 9th grade, students displaying their hand made musical instruments, and 12th grade students explaining how their amps work while they operate.
The goal of this project is to fundamentally change the way you see the world of electronics in a way that has been worked on and honed for the last 100 years!
Our amplifiers go up to 12.
Class Readings:
What is a Class-D Amplifier: Our First article, 1 Section per night.
Amplifier Classes: Our second article, heavier lifting, especially on the technical side.
Biasing a Transistor Guide: A decent guide on choosing your own resistors, diodes, and components.
Traditional Analog-Engineering book: 'The Book' persay, but some content that could be useful. Chapters 1,3 and 4 are directly useful. 2, 8 and 9 might be for students that wanna dive way way down.
Schematic/Simulation Resources:
Fritzing: Same as our Robot schematic maker, not as good at 'simulation'.
Part Sim: Free. Awesome. Simulator.
Projects:
1 Watt Darlington Amplifier: A real darling of an article/tutorial. But Seriously folks, this is a guide to our first non-classical amp.
Another Amp Project: This isn't our full power, only about 0.3 Watt's for an 8 ohm Speaker.
Real-Talk: Resistor values: The only values you can use ... because they are the only ones that exist.
