Announcements

Project Layout Submissions

Curtis Manacsa · Mar 31, 2026 Announcements

The layout assignment will be posted on BCourses soon, and it is now due on 4/3 (Friday) at 11:59 PM.

Please resubmit your work with the layout included on GitHub Classroom. Also, attach your BOM to your project’s README.

Please see #10 if you have not joined or configured the GitHub Classroom. Please DO THIS ASAP! This is how we will be collecting your submissions for the manufacturing deadline!

As stated in #14, even if you have not finished your layout, please include screenshots of your progress in your design review slides!

IMPORTANT: Design Review Week!

Curtis Manacsa · Mar 31, 2026 Announcement Announcements

Hi HOPE students,

I hope your Spring Break was great!

As a reminder, this week is Design Review! This is a really crucial week, and staff will be all-hands-on-deck to support your projects. You must go to your assigned section this week to present. There are a few things that you should know:

  • Design review slides are due at 7 PM on the day of your section. Submit your slides to BCourses, and make sure to give global viewing permission if you submit a link!
  • Please use this template for your design review slide submission link
  • If you are in a group that has Wednesday and Thursday section students, please attend the one that the majority of your group is in, and make a private edpost.
  • Let us know about any exam conflicts through a private EdPost.

Even if you are not done with the project checkpoints, please put together any work you have done in your design review slides so that you can get personalized feedback.

Also, check out the other post too, but layout submissions have been pushed back to the original date of Friday 4/3. Please include any progress you have made for layout in your design review slides!

Curtis OH 3/18

Curtis Manacsa · Mar 19, 2026 General

I will be running a bit late, expect Berkeley time + a little bit. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Monday 5-6pm OH Canceled - Ansh

Ansh Thakkar · Mar 17, 2026 Announcement General

Hello HOPE Students,

I cannot make it to my usual OH today. The calendar has been updated to reflect this.

Thanks, Ansh

Project Schematic Submissions

Aarav Singh · Mar 15, 2026 Announcement General

Hello HOPE students,

Apologies for the delay on instructions for submitting your project schematic. For this assignment, we will be opening up a bcourses submission since we were delayed in setting up the GitHub classroom. For bcourses, please submit a zip archive of your project along with a link to your bill of materials and a pdf of your schematic.

Assignment: https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1553922/assignments/9050321

(If you need an extension, fill out the extension request on the website)

We have a non-graded checkoff quiz that you can go through to ensure you have completed everything for this project: https://bcourses.berkeley.edu/courses/1553922/quizzes/2532083

We are going to be using GitHub classroom for all project related submissions going forward. GitHub is useful tool for version control, we have a guide for setting it up here: https://hope.berkie.ee/github-desktop.

If you need help setting this up, you can make a private edpost or come in and ask us in person during office hours or sections.

For joining the GitHub classroom, please join via this link and connect your GitHub account to your name: https://classroom.github.com/a/uwAiv-IU

Once you accept the assignment, check to see if one of your teammates has created a repository already under the join an existing team section.

You can find your group number by clicking on the “Groups” tab on the bcourse’s People page.

If you are the first person in your group to join, please create a team name with the following format: Group-[Group #]-[Project/Team name].

e.g. Group-28-Buck-Converter

If any issues arise during the account linking/ group forming process, you can make a private post on Ed, and I will work with you to resolve it.

  • HOPE Staff

OH Delayed - Roman

Roman Silivra · Mar 14, 2026 Announcement General

Hello all,

My OH today will start a little later than usual, probably closer to 5:15 or 5:20 PM. I will stay later.

Thanks,

Roman

Project Resources

Aarav Singh · Mar 13, 2026 Announcement General

As a reminder, we have a project spec document with deliverables and references for each step of the project. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1smVeWLNiplKkxcA6GZ_3y53MKBoSkndNkYT-nEIYHTI/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.4ezcpfh21zxb

We recommend using the ESP32-S3-WROOM-1-N16R8 for your microcontroller because we have a lot of them, we also have a reference schematic here (it has the design rules for JLCPCB manufacturing) : https://drive.google.com/drive/u/1/folders/1xYzoJUOG03_vSiMpzJzM-GwwctzvgaoV

For your USB-C we recommend using the USB4085-GF-A (https://www.digikey.com/en/products/detail/gct/USB4085-GF-A/9859662) since USB-Cs have been a common point of failure in previous semesters.

OH MOVED TEMPORARILY- Curtis

Curtis Manacsa · Mar 5, 2026 General

For this week only, I’ve moved my OH to Thursday 4-5.

Running Late to Office Hours

Shikha Kathrani · Feb 28, 2026 General

Hi all,

I’ll be at my office hours at 4:20. I apologize for the delay!

OH Moved - Shikha

Shikha Kathrani · Feb 20, 2026 General

Hi all,

Due to a time conflict, I’ll be moving my OH tomorrow (2/20) from 1pm - 2pm in Cory 125 to 2pm - 3pm in Cory 125. Feel free to come for any questions, checkoffs, or just to chat! :)

OH MOVED - ISHAAN

Ishaan Gupta · Feb 19, 2026 Announcement General

Due to the Supernode being closed for tours from 12-1pm , I am moving my OH to 5-6 PM in Super Node

No office hours today

Ansh Thakkar · Feb 17, 2026 Announcement General

Hello,

Since today is a holiday, I am not holding my usual 5 pm OH. The HOPE calendar has been updated to reflect this.

Thanks, Ansh