SV: Re: [sdiy] Matlab and Aarons free labour!

[Matt Simpson]

On 11/30/05, Aaron Lanterman <lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, karl dalen wrote:
>
> > Hey, when you do force your undergrads to implemet it in a small FPGA
> > and make it public domain! :)
>
> Well, they need to get something working in MATLAB first. ;)
>
> Working with undergrads is sometimes slow going. Hell, working with
> graduate students is sometimes slow going.
>
> > Have you realized that you have your own free-of
> > charge-no-union-no-work-terms synth manufacturing labour's for your
> > disposal! :)
>
> Some of my inspiration, actually, came from reading about Serge
> can't-spell-his-last-name-off-the-top-of-my-head's experiences at Cal
> Arts and hearing/reading stories from Don Hassler and Peter Grenader about
> those days...
>
> I'm requiring our sophomore DSP/system theory class and our junior
> microelectronics class as prereqs. I've been inundated with wave after
> wave of e-mails asking me to drop the microelectronics prereq. If I did,
> my class would rapidly double in size. I really need to keep it though,
> since I want them to be comfy with diodes and transistors and op amps.
> Interestingly, a lot of students who can't take it are interested in
> sitting in. How often does that happen in undergrad classes? ;)

heck yeah.  thank you Drs. McClellan & Leach for that.

(curiously, have you woken up Tom Brewer in his office yet?)

>
> Also, I don't want the class to be _to_ big my first time around...

ha too bad.

> The lab I work in, which is the DSP group at GaTech, is all theory and
> computer-oriented people - people are looking at me and my soldering iron
> with confused and fascinated looks. I keep shocking people when I walk
> into the kitchen to wash flux off the board. "You can do that????"

that's b/c they're strictly Comp E's.  Being one myself, i'm
surrounded by non soldering folks.
Granted, I feel more at home with a PIC than a PCB, but whatever ;D

>
> I need to start looking into the Blacet stuff now... he has some really
> intriguing and unique modules.

speaking from experience, Blacet stuff is great.  He's a really great
guy, and the information he provides is really good.

my 2cents.  see you next semester.
actually see you saturday, but rest assured i'll be in the class next
year.  oh yes.

matt simpson

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