VirtualWire: Supporting Rapid Prototyping with Instant Reconfigurations of Wires in Breadboarded Circuits

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

“…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 Reflective Maker: Using Reflection to Support Skill-learning in Makerspaces

“…HeyTeddy [6] helps with circuit wiring by providing voice assistance to the user and also requests the user to confrm that they fnished a certain step. Similarly, Cir-cuitStack [11], and VirtualWire [8] supports users with wiring or re-confguring circuit wiring. Recently, the concept of smart makerspaces has also been proposed by researchers where the learners are provided with guidance during their maker tasks [7].…”

SensorViz: Visualizing Sensor Data Across Different Stages of Prototyping Interactive Objects

“…To assist makers with programming, several tools automatically generate code based on high-level input provided via a component diagram that the maker draws (Trigger-Action-Circuits [1]), via a confguration interface that the maker selects hardware behavior criteria (Adapt2Learn [31]), or via a conversation the maker has with a virtual agent (HeyTeddy [16]). To facilitate hardware prototyping, researchers developed tools that help makers iterate on circuit layouts before physically building them (VirtualComponent [17], VirtualWire [20]). In addition, tools, such as AutoFritz [22] and SchemaBoard [18], support makers in creating circuits by providing guidance where to place components onto the breadboard.…”