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The Weather Station Project

This is a 250-page textbook that was developed for an electrical engineering laboratory on instrumentation techniques. The book provides the theory and develops designs for temperature, humidity, wind direction, wind speed and air-pressure instruments.

This material will be of interest to those designing weather station instruments. It also provides a vehicle for teaching analog and microprocessor system design at a university or college.

At Ryerson University, students use this material to construct a microprocessor-based weather station instrument. They design the instrumentation circuits, build hardware, write microprocessor software and calibrate the instruments. An example lab curriculum is included in the text as Chapter 10. The Weather Station currently uses the MPP Board microcomputer, but other microcomputers are possible.

Analog and Microprocessor System Design: The Weather Station Project (Download Size: 1.5Megabytes).

You are welcome to personal use of this material or for non-profit teaching purposes. If you would like to distribute it for sale, please contact us.

Microprocessor Mobile Robot Lab

These are teaching materials we have developed to support a complete 13 week microprocessor course on the 68HC11 microprocessor, based on the eebot mobile robot and the MPP Board microcomputer.

Microprocessor Lab curriculum Overview and schedule for a 13 week microprocessor lab using eebot .
Introduction to the Lab Setup and use of the Buffalo Monitor, a simple assembly language program.
Programming the Liquid Crystal Display Display functions and programming.
Battery Voltage and Bumpers Using the A/D converter to read battery voltage and bumper status.
Motor Control, Timer Basic operation of the DC motors, timer functions.
Robot Roaming A simple bump-and-turn program for robot control.
Wheel Counters Interrupt-driven counting of the drive wheel rotations for distance measurement.
The Guider Reading the pattern-detector and line-follower sensors.
Motor speed control Controlling motor speed by varying the duty cycle.
Challenge 2001 Programming project, a line-following torture-test.
Challenge 2002 Programming project, solving and traversing a maze.

Each item is between 10 and 17 pages of tutorial material plus a programming assignment, in .PDF format. You are welcome to personal use of these materials or for non-profit teaching purposes. If you would like to distribute them for sale, please contact us.

Technical Manuals

Essential technical material on the 68HC11 Microprocessor.

M68HC11 Reference Manual (The Pink Book )
Motorola Semiconductor
6th Edition
Publication M68HC11RM/AD
Motorola Literature Distribution Center
1-800-441-2447
M68HC11 E Series Technical Data
Motorola Semiconductor
Rev 2.0
Publication M68HC11E/D
Motorola Literature Distribution Center
1-800-441-2447
68HC11 Microcontroller Manual
Peter Hiscocks, 2002
Syscomp Electronic Design Limited
www.eelabinstruments.com

Textbooks

Various textbooks on the 68HC11 Microprocessor.

M68HC11: An Introduction, Software and Hardware Interfacing
2nd Edition
Han-Way Huang
West Publishing, 2000
Embedded Microcomputer Systems: Real Time Interfacing
Jonathan W. Valvano
Thompson Learning, 2000
Microcontroller Technology: The 68HC11
Second Edition
Peter Spasov
Prentice Hall, 1996
The M68HC11 Microcontroller:
Applications in Control, Instrumentation and Communication
Michael Kheir
Prentice Hall, 1997
Using the M68HC11 Microcontroller
A Guide to Interfacing and Programming the M68HC11 Microcontroller
John C. Skroder
Prentice Hall, 1997
Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implimentation
Joseph L. Jones, Anita M. Flynn
A.K.Peters, 1993
Robotic Explorations: A Hands-on Introduction to Engineering
Fred G. Martin
Prentice Hall, 2001