Irfan said:
Hello everyone.
I am a first year freshman in BE electronic engineering.
We have a project to handle.
The project is to build any electronic circuit of our choice. Better to
make it on PCB.
The project can be any circuit doing any work.
Kindly suggest which circuits i can build. Circuit references will be
apprecaited.
Thanks in advance.
Hi, Irfan. You've been in your classes -- you surely have some idea
what you've been studying, and hopefully are starting to get an idea of
what area of electronics engineering specifically interests you. The
idea of the underclassman project in an EE program (sometimes done
during Soph year) is primarily to give some experience in electronic
construction techniques and hands-on experience rather than doing
anything ground-breaking.
You might want to ask yourself what areas of your studies interest you.
Or, if that fails you, talk with your adviser or an upperclassman.
You could get info about some previous successful freshman projects to
give you some ideas as to recommended circuit complexity, recommended
writeup, and other requirements.
Your question is way too broad to give any kind of a helpful answer.
You might want to post back when you've got something more to go on.
A couple of pieces of advice:
1) Hurry early. Work hard now to get a defined project, and get a
start on purchase parts and the process of making a circuit board.
Today. Make timelines with milestones. Check with your adviser to see
if they're realistic. Stay on schedule.
2) If you're looking at an existing design, make sure everything is
still available before you commit. Parts do become obsolete.
3) If you're not familiar with any circuit board CAD software, and
your school doesn't have a recommended package, it might be a good time
to download the free Eagle layout editor:
http://www.cadsoftusa.com/
Make sure you know the restrictions of the free package.
4) Resist the temptation to just use a canned project with predesigned
board. Take the time to learn the CAD software.
5) As a Frosh, you probably don't have enough RF background to get
yourself out of trouble, so stick with something slower-speed for a
first project. Also, for the same reason, avoid home-brew switching
power supplies for now.
6) Don't forget the presentation aspect. Your project will probably
need a box or enclosure, and possibly an external power supply.
Establish project constraints early, build around the constraints of
the project, and get those items as soon as possible.
7) Avoid biting off more than you can chew. Unless you're familiar
with a particular microcontroller, don't make your grade here dependent
on obtaining a development system and learning it. You will have to do
this before you graduate, but underclassman project isn't supposed to
be an enormous thing.
Have fun
Chris
