Preparing a remote conducted course for microcontrollers based on Arduino

Fotopoulos, V.; Spiliopoulos, Anastasios I.; Fanariotis, Anastasios

doi:10.12681/icodl.563

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“…As mentioned in [6], the use of remote laboratories can also improve engineering education. Some works on Arduino-based remote laboratories could be found in [52][53][54]. Note that Arduino could be programmed with Assembly using AVR studio [16].…”

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A Review of Embedded Systems Education in the Arduino Age: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

El-Abd

2017

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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Abstract-In this paper, the subject of embedded systems education in the Arduino age is examined. Arduino is an open-source microcontroller platform that has been widely popular in the past decade among hobbyists and academics. Arduino is increasingly being adopted in courses that span different disciplines in schools and universities. As a result, numerous papers are being published every year in different engineering education conferences and journals reporting the integration of Arduino in teaching. In this work, the impact of Arduino on embedded systems education is investigated. First, challenges facing embedded systems education are identified from the literature. Second, different Arduino teaching integration methodologies reported in the literature are surveyed and analyzed. Third, the question whether Arduino successfully addresses embedded education challenges or not is discussed taking both surveyed findings and recent market trends into consideration. Finally, a number of openended research directions are proposed.

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A Review of Embedded Systems Education in the Arduino Age: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

El-Abd

2017

Int. J. Eng. Ped.

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“…A set of remote labs are currently available providing real experimentation with Arduino over the Internet. Some of these systems [36]- [38] focus on allowing a single simultaneous access to the lab. This, however, cannot be used by the teacher during classes, because several simultaneous accesses are expected.…”

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“…These laboratories, while still being a good alternative for providing physical decoupling, are not extremely cost-efficient, because the laboratory hardware to user relationship is one to one. From an architectural point of view, laboratories [36]- [38] present a centralized distribution focused solely on the specific experiment itself, while laboratories [39]- [41] have been designed on a distributed architecture focused on cost reduction to favor scalability. This work proposes an architecture focused on scalability that allows the deployment of the desired number of instances of experimentation at a low cost, in order to provide simultaneous access to large student numbers and not hinder the experimentation capability.…”

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Improving the Scalability and Replicability of Embedded Systems Remote Laboratories Through a Cost-Effective Architecture

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Online remote laboratories are a particularly promising tool for effective STEM education. They offer online universal access to different hardware devices in which students can experiment and can test and improve their knowledge. However, most of them have two significant limitations. First, given that most of them are developed as, or evolve from single-user proofs of concept, they have no scalability provisions other than full laboratory replication. And second, when this is done, cost efficiency is often neglected. This paper presents the requirements for the creation of a novel remote laboratory architecture focused on, but not limited to, embedded systems experimentation. An architecture, based on Redis (an open source, in-memory data structure store, which is often used as database, cache or message broker), a modular design, and hardware-sharing techniques, is proposed in order to achieve the combined requirements of high scalability and cost efficiency. This mixed hardware-software architecture serves as a basis for the development of remote laboratories, especially those focused on microcontroller-based systems experimentation and embedded devices experimentation. From a user perspective the architecture is webbased, and has provisions to be easily adaptable to different Learning Management Systems and different hardware embedded devices. A new microcontroller-oriented remote laboratory based on the architecture has been developed, with the aim of providing valid evaluation data, and has been used in a real environment. The architecture and the resulting remote laboratory have been compared with other state of the art remote laboratories and their architectures. Results suggest that the proposed architecture does indeed meet the main requirements, which are scalability through replicability and cost efficiency. Furthermore, similarly to previous architectures, it promotes usability, universal access, modularity and reliability. INDEX TERMS Remote laboratory, scalability, embedded system, online experimentation, architecture. JAVIER GARCÍA-ZUBÍA (M'08-SM'11) received the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Deusto, Spain. He is currently a Full Professor with the Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto. He is the Leader of the WebLab-Deusto Research Group. His research interests include remote laboratory design, implementation, and evaluation. DIEGO LÓPEZ-DE-IPIÑA received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Cambridge, in 2002. Responsible for several modules in the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in computer engineering, he is interested in pervasive computing, the IoT, semantic service middleware, open linked data, and social data mining. He is currently an Associate Professor and a Principal Researcher with the MORElab Group, Faculty of Engineering, University of Deusto. He is taking and has taken part in several big consortium-based research European (EDI, GreenSoul, WeLive, SIM-PATICO, IES CITIES, or GOLAB) and Spanish projects, and has more than

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“…To date a number of solutions oriented toward enhancement of the learning experience through remotely accessed laboratories have been discussed [12]- [27]. Creative approaches to control the hardware not intended to work in the remote environments have also been reported [20]- [27]. For the fieldprogrammable gate array (FPGA) courses, the successful laboratory should provide access to the required computeraided design (CAD) packages, as well as to the programming interface and the input/output (I/O) components of the evaluation hardware.…”

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Application of Open-Hardware-Based Solutions for Rapid Transition From Stationary to the Remote Teaching Model During Pandemic

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While research indicates usefulness of remote laboratories in teaching of digital hardware systems, their main application is to complement stationary classes. This work presents a low-cost, scalable architecture that supports rapid transformation of teaching to a model based solely on remote access mechanisms. Background: Adaptation of online laboratory solutions from the literature to en-masse teaching of digital circuits is timeconsuming and expensive. Solutions that permit cheap and rapid conversion of courses to remote environments seem to be of high value, especially when social distancing renders direct teaching impossible. Intended Outcomes: Demonstration of a flexible and cheap architecture that permits rapid transformation of digital circuits laboratories to the remote environment. Validation of system's performance and usefulness on a large group of students. Application Design: Remote digital circuits laboratories from the literature are designed to complement stationary classes. For successful teaching during pandemic, a low-cost, flexible, and efficient solution to online laboratory based on commonly available technologies is required. Findings: The proposed remote laboratory architecture enables rapid conversion of on-site teaching to online model, while supporting in-situ upgrades and functionality enhancements. The presented solution proved to be a convenient substitute for conventional laboratories during pandemic. Index Terms-Digital circuits design, low-cost remote architecture, open-hardware, remote laboratories, teaching during pandemic.

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Preparing a remote conducted course for microcontrollers based on Arduino

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A Review of Embedded Systems Education in the Arduino Age: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

A Review of Embedded Systems Education in the Arduino Age: Lessons Learned and Future Directions

Improving the Scalability and Replicability of Embedded Systems Remote Laboratories Through a Cost-Effective Architecture

Application of Open-Hardware-Based Solutions for Rapid Transition From Stationary to the Remote Teaching Model During Pandemic

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