Participate

Experiments

Courses

Participate

About Us

Contact Us

Take Home Labs Homepage

We welcome everyone to participate in the Take Home Labs website. You can do that by submitting new experiments, submitting corrections to existing experiments or by providing general comments on the site.

The guiding principles of the Take Home Labs website are the following. 1) The experiments can be done at home with a minimum of equipment. They do not require scopes, signal generators, spectrum analyzers, or other devices that would not normally be found in a dorm room. 2) The materials/parts are inexpensive and are conveniently available online, or can be made with a 3-D printer (printer files provided). The materials required to run all of the experiments for a given course cost no more than the price of a textbook. 3) Since the experiments are done at home, without the assistance of a TA, the authors make every effort to produce experiment handouts that are clear and complete. Prerequisite experiments are indicated in the lab handout and always include at least one of the introductory experiments. Background material required of the student is limited to theoretical topics relevant to the experiment (e.g., what a transfer function is), and not hardware/software technicalities (e.g., how an Arduino is interfaced to Simulink). 4) The heart of most experiments is an inexpensive microcontroller, such as the Arduino or the Rasberry Pi. 5) Many experiments take advantage of Simulink blocks for programming the microcontroller, to minimize the amount of programming required by the student. For experiments in which programming is the key topic, this is not the case.

If you would like to submit a new experiment for the site, please email the following four items to the email address shown in the Contact Us link in the left sidebar. (If your files make up more than 10 MB, contact us before sending the files.)

• LaTex and PDF versions of the experiment handout (along with any figure files, etc.) zipped into one file. (A LaTex template for the experiment handout can be downloaded through the link in the right sidebar. Also, look at other experiment handouts for example formats.)
• List of hardware/parts needed to run the experiment, with links to online sites to order the parts. (See the Hardware/Parts links on some of the experiment pages to see examples of this information.) The experiment handout should not contain any active links. The links will be located on the Hardware/Parts web page.
• If necessary, any code, including Simulink files, that are needed to run the experiment (zipped into one file).
• If necessary, any 3-D printer files for parts required to run the experiment (zipped into one file).

The contributor of each experiment will be recognized on the experiment web page and within the experiment handout.

To submit files, corrections or comments, use the email address in the Contact Us link in the left sidebar.

Thanks in advance for your help.

LaTex Handout Template