Week 11 Tuesday -- MAE 412
Lecture:
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Right Track Software
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Cutting of Track using Dremel Cut-off Tool
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Track Guaging -- Stagger Rail Cuts on Curve
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Soldering Leads to Track
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Rail Joiners - conducting and insulating
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Track and Wheel Cleaning
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Track Power Monitoring
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Look-up Table for Quick Computation
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Single-Chip Microcomputer
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Basic Stamp Demo / Discussion
Assignments and Reference Material:
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For information about the Interrupt Service Routine read
Chapter 5 on Communications by Gurion and Simon in Volume 1 of the On-line
Text.
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For information about the Bar-Code Reader, RR Signal Control,
and Interlocking Control (Track Kill) read Chapter 6 on Block Management
by Lecky and Fiderer in Volume 1 of On-line Text.
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Read Chapter 2 of Volume 1 of the On-line Text ("Hornby
Railways ...")
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Document your working computer using ORCAD (see example
on CIRCUITS page) -- Hand in next Tuesday (include 74LS244 buffer).
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Read Chapter 3 of CST -- available on-line (go to BLACKBOARD
=> LIBRARY => e-reserves => authentication page => user:mae412 password:littman1).
Continue studying the 6502 instruction set.