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Welcome to the mechatronics systems design course wiki! Click on the lesson from the menu to start learning! The Table of Contents below presents a chronological arrangement of lessons and labs covered throughout this course.

Lesson 0: What is Mechatronics Engineering?

Module 1: Electricity and Electronics Basics

Labsson 1: Electricity Fundamentals ‐ Understanding Conductors, Insulators, Ohm's Law, Power, and Choosing the Right Battery

Labsson 2: Resistors, Variable Resistors AKA Potentiometers, and Resistor Ratings

Labsson 3: Capacitors, Diodes, and LEDs

Module 2: Arduino as the Brain of Mechatronics Systems - Integration with Sensors and Actuators

Labsson 4: An Introduction to Digital Electronics and Arduino Programming

Labsson 5: Getting Started with Arduino Programming and Blinking LED with Arduino

Labsson 6: Arduino Programming Continued: Variables, Loops, Conditional Statements, Designing a Binary Counter Using LEDs, and Using Push Buttons

Labsson 7: Understanding Pulse Width Modulation PWM, Controlling LED brightness and Modulating Speaker Volume and Pitch using PWM, and Reading Writing Analog Signals in Arduino

Labsson 8: DC Motors, Driving and Controlling DC Motors Using PWM and H‐Bridge Techniques, Controlling a DC Motor Using Potentiometer

Labsson 9: Ultrasonic Sensors ‐ Principle of Operation, Calibration, and Noise Removal

Module 3: Wheeled Mobile Robot Project

Part 1: Basic Motion Control of the Wheeled Mobile Robot ‐ Forward, Backward, Turning, and Stopping

Part 2: Adding Obstacle Detection and Avoidance to the Mobile Robot

Part 3: Introduction to Computer Vision and Adding an "Eye" to the Wheeled Robot

Module 4: Closed Loop Control: An Introduction to PID Control with a Case Study

Project: Introduction to Proportional‐Integral‐Derivative (PID) Control and PID Position Control of a DC Motor