ElectroTutor

BlinkBoard: Guiding and monitoring circuit assembly for synchronous and remote physical computing education

“…1 .1). The key difference with previous work [5] , [10] is that BlinkBoard supports a real-time bidirectional link between instructor and remote students, offering at the same time both guidance and monitoring. Because the prototype is meant for in-class education, the hardware is low-cost ( ), easy to fabricate, and both hardware and software are open-source.…”

“…The first challenge is that the instructor needs to be able to guide the students about how a circuit should be assembled. This was achieved in previous work by visualizing step-by-step instructions on how to connect electronic components using Augmented Reality [5] , [6] , [7] , Virtual Reality [8] , breadboards instrumented with LEDs [5] , [9] , and videos [10] , [11] or graphical interfaces displayed on a computer [10] , [12] . The second challenge is to enable an instructor to monitor the students’ progress and to check whether the students completed an exercise or encountered problems.…”

“…The second challenge is to enable an instructor to monitor the students’ progress and to check whether the students completed an exercise or encountered problems. Since individual monitoring rarely scales up for large classes, previous systems focused on the automatic detection of circuit problems with various types of interfaces [10] , [13] , [14] . The VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) remote lab [11] is a particularly interesting example that is deployed in dozens of universities [15] , which supports monitoring of students’ progress during exercises with electronics.…”

Flowboard: How Seamless, Live, Flow-Based Programming Impacts Learning to Code for Embedded Electronics

“…Wifröst [34] successfully expands this approach also to integrate debugging support for network code. Finally, without leaving the imperative programming paradigm, ElectroTutor [51] provides support to follow a test-driven development approach across both software and hardware development, with positive impact on users' ability to complete introductory tutorials.…”

Heimdall

“…Future work can address how to seamlessly include findings into comprehensive feedback and hints delivered to the students. Ideas to build on for such functionality include Electrotutor [29] and TraceDiff [26].…”