Class 06
 

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Assignment

Preliminary description: (may change):

  1. Get a used, dead consumer embedded system, such as cell phone, MP3 player, digital camera, cordless phone. If none is available to you, please contact me.
  2. Disassemble the gadget. Try not to break/destroy at first. you may get more invasive as you progress.
  3. Take pictures. Take many pictures. Take pictures in stages, as you get more invasive and destructive.
  4. Find information on the web to identify components and figure out how it works.
  5. Write a blog, following the blogging lecture to show what you did, in words and pictures.

Note: The blog is to be set up on the ASU Blog site, using your ASURite account. All the blogs are public and I will make the blogs for this assignment known to others in the class, hence your colleagues will be able to look at your work.