Loker, D. R., & Brubaker, N. W., & Bohbot, D. A. (2021, July), MicroPython in a Wireless Communications Systems Course  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference. 10.18260/1-2--37502

\bibitem{asee_peer_37502}
  Loker, D. R., \& Brubaker, N. W., \& Bohbot, D. A. (2021, July), \emph{MicroPython in a Wireless Communications Systems Course}
  Paper presented at 2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference.
  10.18260/1-2--37502

David R. Loker, Nathan Wayne Brubaker, and Daniel Albert Bohbot.  "MicroPython in a Wireless Communications Systems Course".  2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July.  ASEE Conferences, 2021.  https://peer.asee.org/37502 Internet.  12 Jan, 2025

\bibitem{asee_peer_37502}
  David R. Loker, Nathan Wayne Brubaker, and Daniel Albert Bohbot.
  "MicroPython in a Wireless Communications Systems Course".
  \emph{2021 ASEE Virtual Annual Conference Content Access, Virtual Conference, 2021, July}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2021.
  https://peer.asee.org/37502 Internet.  12 Jan, 2025

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AB  - Part of the requirements for an Electrical Engineering Technology program and/or Computer Engineering Technology program includes the ability for students to design and implement embedded systems in a variety of courses. One typical course is wireless communications systems, and this can be offered as a lower-division or upper-division course. Due to the free and open source software availability of Python, and its popularity, a small subset of the Python standard library (called MicroPython) is optimized to run on a variety of microcontrollers for embedded applications. Additionally, some of these microcontrollers have wireless capabilities. One such device includes the Digi XBee 3 module, which implements the Zigbee, 802.15.4, and BLE protocols. Another device is the ESP8266 Wi-Fi module. These devices are inexpensive and suitable for embedded applications in a wireless communications systems course. The Community Edition of PyCharm is available for free and can be used as the software development environment. The goal of this paper is to introduce a series of labs that can be used within this course. Possible topics for lab projects include: network connectivity, analog-to-digital conversion, sensor data collection, pulse-width modulation, digital input/output, serial communication (UART), serial peripheral interface (SPI) protocol, and inter-integrated circuit (I2C) protocol. For lab projects, engineering requirements, flowcharts, schematics, and results are provided.
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